Re: Galileo Galilei

Hey Zig,

what kind of rubber/plastic do you use for the membrane for your vortex/smoke ring cannon thingy? I'm sure it's McMaster Carr but I'm thinking of making mine out of a standard metal trash can......I just want to get the rubber right.....

I sat in on your clinic at the Boise AAPT meeting..... enjoyed the demos.....

Regards,

Paul Fechtmeister

paulfecht@hotmail.com

>From: "Zigmund J. Peacock"

>Reply-To: tap-l@listproc.appstate.edu

>To: tap-l@listproc.appstate.edu

>Subject: Re: Galileo Galilei

>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:04:51 -0700

>Tappers, it is a little known fact that as Gallileo was rolling balls down an

>incline he did not time them with water drops etc. Rather he used the inate

>sense of time that musicians [which he was also] seem to have.

> It turns out that the musical mind can accurately recognize timing to 1/64

>of a second.

> Think of a piece of music you know well and one of the first ways you

>recognize you favourite performer is the beat associated with them.

> My bit for Monday. Zig

> > "Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564, the son of Vincenzo Galilei, well known

> > for his studies of music, and Giulia Ammannati. He studied at Pisa, where he

> > later held the chair in mathematics from 1589 - 1592.

>Zigmund J. Peacock WWW.physics.utah.edu/people/staff/peacock.html

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