I think Jim understands your argument.
I think everyone understands your argument.
Your argument is extremely easy to follow.
But your argument is wrong because it ignores the pulley's moment of inertia and bearing friction.
The only one that still doesn't get that is you, pequaide.
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pequaide, you need to review this post here:
http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewt ... 6912#96912
It is a vital part of what you are still missing and continue to ignore.
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pequaide wrote:
As far as 'moment of inertia' I am not ignoring that either;
Really pequaide? Where in your analysis do you account for your pulley's moment of inertia and the affects of accelerating it at different radii?
The
effect of the pulley's Moment_of_Inertia is not the same for both runs because you are changing your drive radius. Remember your experiment with the "unsatisfactory results" where you didn't change your drive radius. What did you see when you didn't change the drive radius and screw with the
effects of the pulley's Moment_of_Inertia between experiments? Your mr theory broke down. It broke down, pequaide. So you had to change your experiment where the
effects of the pulley's Moment_of_Inertia was different between experiments, but got the results you want.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that there's a bus in your experiment. Almost 66% of your system mass is hanging at a 3" radius, and about the other 33% of your "system mass" is tied up in the moment of inertia of your pulley, which you are accelerating at different radii. And then there's the bowling ball and the pea (about 1% of your system mass) that you are trying to get everyone to focus on. We are trying to get you to focus on the bus in your experiment, that you are intent on ignoring. For the mass breakdown, see this post here:
http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewt ... 654#101654
pequaide, there's a bus in your experiment. And it's not even the same bus between experiments, so you can't ignore it, which you insist on doing.