Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
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Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
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Re: Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
#2I didn't realize there was both mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com. A quick glance at both looks like they serve largely the same purpose.
Cool modelling in any case!
Re: Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
#3I didn't realize there was both mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com. A quick glance at both looks like they serve largely the same purpose. Cool modelling in any case!
I believe MathOverflow - a formerly non-SE site - targets graduate-level questions, while math.SE has a broader target user base.
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#4This is beautiful. I'd be curious about the results of a similar monte carlo simulation (or random variable statistics if possible) that had identical force laws but introduced random gaps between the balls.
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#5Weird, wasn't expecting to find that it was by my brother in law!
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#6Jim Belk was my math professor in college -- we always knew he was a much better programmer than he let on!
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#7What does the pattern of motion look like once they start bouncing off walls?
What about if the table is frictionless?
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#8Jim Belk was my math professor in college -- we always knew he was a much better programmer than he let on!
It's pretty neat seeing someone from Bard on HN
Re: Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
#9I didn't realize there was both mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com. A quick glance at both looks like they serve largely the same purpose. Cool modelling in any case!
I believe MathOverflow - a formerly non-SE site - targets graduate-level questions, while math.SE has a broader target user base.
Yeah, MathOverflow was a SE 1.0 site (when we had white-label Stack Exchange networks rather than internally made ones) which has since been added into the real network with the SE 2.0 rollout. Math.SE and MathOverflow seem to function well together even they though have similar areas of interests.
Re: Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
#10This doesn't take into account rotation though :(
See http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Classes/MATH198/townsend/in... for including rotation.