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18 Jul 2024 16:13:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: a newton's cradle  
From: Urs Holzer
Date: 26 Jun 2004 11:59:20
Message: <40dd9d58@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:

> [...]
> The equation for a pendulum is ang.accel = g * sin(angle), whereas most
> people just use ang.accel = g * angle :-)

since sin(angle) for a little angle is approximately angle. (And later they
use it for big angles too.)
Those physicists!


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