Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site noscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!noscvax!jordan From: jordan@noscvax.UUCP (Martin C. Jordan) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Monkey Query Message-ID: <87@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 19:08:53 EST Article-I.D.: noscvax.87 Posted: Tue Nov 5 19:08:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:02:18 EST References: <705@sri-arpa.ARPA> <667@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jordan@cod.UUCP (Martin C. jordan) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 23 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