Suspect Calculators

Jul 02, 2006 0 Replies

A lot of on line physics and engineering calculators are suspect and many get pulled as soon as I present them as being "interesting" or "fun." (I never diss a free calculator.)



The drag on a sphere calculator below is probably OK but they leave it to you to figure out the exponent.



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I start out using something I know like the drag force on a car going



55 mph. Then I work my way down to the order of magnitude of concern.


Bret Cahill



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