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physics
3 entries tagged “physics”.
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Far too harsh on the keyboard — the ebike's steering had no smoothing
A digital keypress was assigned straight to the steering axis, so the bike went from zero to full lock in one frame; here is the fix, a headlamp that came on three hours after dark for an unrelated reason, and an honest note that nobody has ridden any of it yet.
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The coin pile never settled, and the frame rate was the reason
Building a working penny pusher out of several hundred real rigid bodies, and the feedback loop where slow frames stop a pile settling, which keeps the bodies awake, which keeps the frames slow.
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Proving a physics roulette wheel is fair, and the two tests that lied about it
The betting shop's roulette wheel is a real rigid body in a real bowl, so the winning number is wherever it stops - which means fairness has to be measured rather than asserted, and the measuring is where all the interesting failures were.