• filtoid@lemmy.ml
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    Help! Something sensitive is stuck in a cylinder and I need to get it out…

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    …of bird like material which can be represented by a mass average of bone and flesh. This can be used in bird strike simulations for studying aircraft windshield performance as compared to thawed penguins shot out of a pneumatic canon. (I actually went to a talk that discussed exactly this except you replace “penguin” with “bird” in general).

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      But what shall I do once a circular cylinder has been assumed? A cylinder whose cross section takes the shape of a circle?

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    Not sure if it’s popular internationally, but in Russian, “a calculation for a spherical horse in vacuum” is used quite often

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    Therefore the density of penguin flesh on a flat glacier surface can be estimated to be 3pi/4 l x w x h where length and width are the area of the penguins, and h is the average height of the penguin.