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From: jordan@noscvax.UUCP (Martin C. Jordan)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Monkey Query
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 19:08:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 19:08:53 1985
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In article <667@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
>> From:  Nichael 
>> The Monkey [as you might have guessed by now] starts climbing the Rope.  What
>> is the motion of the Weight [or for that matter, that of the Monkey]?
>
>Can we bring an experimentalist in on this?
>-- 
>D Gary Grady
>Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706

        Would a simulation do? If you can get me the massless rope and
pulley (made of obscurium?), I can get a civil servant. The hard part
will be training him to climb a rope!

        I posed this problem to a theoretical physicist here at NOSC. 
He mused over the problem yesterday. Today I received a memo from him.
It started:
                "Assume a spherical monkey.........."


"What would Atwood do?"
Martin Jordan
jordan@nosc.arpa