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  Focus: Measuring the Forces in a Knot Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 17:45 -0500
    Re: Focus: Measuring the Forces in a Knot jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-11 23:07 +0000

#520397 — Focus: Measuring the Forces in a Knot

Focus: Measuring the Forces in a Knot
> http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/86

> Knots tied with stiff wire have a simplified geometry that reveals
> the relationship between the configuration of a knot and the forces
> within it.

> Knots have such sharp twists and turns that researchers have had
> trouble determining precisely how a knot's shape affects the forces
> within it. But now a team has theoretically modeled a simplified
> knot, showing the effects on the internal forces when adding or
> subtracting a turn. The theoretical calculations matched the team's
> experiments in which thin metal wires were tied into large open
> knots. The results may guide future work in characterizing more
> complicated knots that are pulled small and tight.


   Good thing they didn't consult the jimp.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Focus: Measuring the Forces in a Knot
>> http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/86
> 
>> Knots tied with stiff wire have a simplified geometry that reveals

No one in the real world ties wire into knots, shit head.


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