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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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| nav, are drinking in sympathy with moron?
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| consider that that seems likely.
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| consider also, nav, that moron is crashing towards serious medical
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| because of his alcohol use.

"Thom Stewart" wrote:
......wouldld include leeway, tide, deviation and variation, windage,
helmsmans error, etc.

That's pretty close, but you are missing one thing:
Unless you crossed the equator exactly after the first 7 hours which
is statistically very unlikely there vould also be a geometrical
component due to the fact that you are sailing on a globe
and not on a pancake.

Velocity over the ground (?) ("beholden fart" in my native language)
in a unit of nautical miles
per 56 hours, would be the closest I can think of, but it doeen't make
much sense.


Peter S/Y Anicula

Jax,

You're doing it again. A LINE from the STARTING POINT to the finish
LOCATION isn't a point. The POINT is on your head. Read the question
again (with an open mind) analysis. A course was set. It was Sailed and
the finish wasn't where the start was, due to Drift. That difference can
be connected with a line. CONNECTED WITH A LINE not a DOT

H to O, my friend H to O

Ole Thom

Vectors alway have magnitude

Magnitude measured in what units, Jax?

Ole Thom

answer: a resultant
Scout

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
. ..
You sail directly East for 14 hours,
then South for 14 hours,
and then West for 14 hours,
and then North again for 14 hours.

Now if you draw a vector between your starting
position and your final position. What would you
call that vector?

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:00:52 GMT, "Bart Senior"
wrote:

The solution is a vector.

My math is kinda rusty, do you mean an orthogonal (sp?, it's
orthogonaal in Dutch).

BTW, your question was (kinda) about DRAWING a vector, and I still
call that a dot :-)


Cheers!


Remco


Remco Moedt wrote

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 04:53:15 GMT, "Bart Senior"
wrote:

You sail directly East for 14 hours,
then South for 14 hours,
and then West for 14 hours,
and then North again for 14 hours.

Now if you draw a vector between your starting
position and your final position. What would you
call that vector?

A dot. :-)

Remco

old dude, it seems you do not understand the term "vector" even yet. the
question you ask is not applicable.

Vectors alway have magnitude

Magnitude measured in what units, Jax?

Ole Thom

Should have been "unless you cross the equator exactly after the first
21 hours" instead of 7.
I thought you went North first. My teacher apparently forgot to tell
me to read the question thoroughly before answering.

Maybe I should comment a bit further on the "geometrical component".
It could be defined as a trigonometrically function of your
start-latitude and your speed over the ground.
Hint: A "parallel", the circle that consists of al points at a given
latitude (for instance 56 degrees North), is smaller (has a lesser
circumference) than any parallel closer to the poles and larger than
any parallel closer to equator, but they are all crossed by the same
number of longitudinal.

Peter S/Y Anicula

"Peter S/Y Anicula" skrev i en
meddelelse ...
"Thom Stewart" wrote:
......wouldld include leeway, tide, deviation and variation,
windage,
helmsmans error, etc.

That's pretty close, but you are missing one thing:
Unless you crossed the equator exactly after the first 7 hours which
is statistically very unlikely there vould also be a geometrical
component due to the fact that you are sailing on a globe
and not on a pancake.

Velocity over the ground (?) ("beholden fart" in my native
language)
in a unit of nautical miles
per 56 hours, would be the closest I can think of, but it doeen't
make
much sense.


Peter S/Y Anicula

Yet another correction:
It is of course the parallels closer to equator that are the larger
ones, and the ones closer to the poles that are smaller. But you
already knew that I meant the opposite of what I wrote, didn't you?

Hint: A "parallel", the circle that consists of al points at a given
latitude (for instance 56 degrees North), is smaller (has a lesser
circumference) than any parallel closer to the poles and larger
than
any parallel closer to equator, but they are all crossed by the same
number of longitudinal.

Peter S/Y Anicula

P.S. Am I talking to myself here ?

"Peter S/Y Anicula" skrev i en
meddelelse ...
Should have been "unless you cross the equator exactly after the
first
21 hours" instead of 7.
I thought you went North first. My teacher apparently forgot to tell
me to read the question thoroughly before answering.

Maybe I should comment a bit further on the "geometrical component".
It could be defined as a trigonometrically function of your
start-latitude and your speed over the ground.
Hint: A "parallel", the circle that consists of al points at a given
latitude (for instance 56 degrees North), is smaller (has a lesser
circumference) than any parallel closer to the poles and larger
than
any parallel closer to equator, but they are all crossed by the same
number of longitudinal.

Peter S/Y Anicula

"Peter S/Y Anicula" skrev i en
meddelelse ...
"Thom Stewart" wrote:
......wouldld include leeway, tide, deviation and variation,
windage,
helmsmans error, etc.

That's pretty close, but you are missing one thing:
Unless you crossed the equator exactly after the first 7 hours
which
is statistically very unlikely there vould also be a geometrical
component due to the fact that you are sailing on a globe
and not on a pancake.

Velocity over the ground (?) ("beholden fart" in my native
language)
in a unit of nautical miles
per 56 hours, would be the closest I can think of, but it doeen't
make
much sense.


Peter S/Y Anicula

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 19:33:13 -0700, (Thom Stewart)
wrote this crap:

Vectors alway have magnitude

Magnitude measured in what units, Jax?

It doesn't matter.






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