Jeff Weisberg on Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:37:00 -0500 |
| It's past my bedtime, too, but one thing I saw right away is that | you're solving for the wrong value. You want to find h when Agas is | 1/4 the area of the entire circle. I mis-understood then. I thought our gas-gauge was broken and we wanted to measure the amount of gas with a dipstick. but we have a working gas-gauge, and want to use it to measure a stick of unknown length. so, you fix the one typo I made, and solve for "h" (or solve for "aprox. h" [1]) when the tank is 1/4 full, the mark on the stick is at just under 0.6*R --jeff [1] if you are an engineer, you can pretend the equation is linear... - **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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