Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-05 Thread Harvey Norris
--- Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a rather nice polarization applet at: http://home3.netcarrier.com/~chan/EM/PROGRAMS/POLARIZATION/ From it one can get an immediate and clear conception of the nature of circular polarization and elliptical polarization as well for that

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-03 Thread Harvey Norris
--- Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harvey, Heres how that paradox works... [snip] This is very interesting and, over the years, you have said similar things in prior posts that lead one to believe that in 3-phase - symmetry in preserved - at least there is that tendency

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-02 Thread Grimer
I was curious as to what would happen if I made a plait of three strings and drew one of them out. I used a fairly stiff plastic string, poly-something, and loosely plaited the three strands. The ends of each strand were marked so that I would know which one to pull and which two to hold. I

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-02 Thread Grimer
At 09:40 am 02-05-05 +, Grimer wrote: I was curious as to what would happen if I made a plait of three strings and drew one of them out. I used a fairly stiff plastic string, poly-something, and loosely plaited the three strands. The ends of each strand were marked so that I would

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-02 Thread Jones Beene
Harvey, Heres how that paradox works... [snip] This is very interesting and, over the years, you have said similar things in prior posts that lead one to believe that in 3-phase - symmetry in preserved - at least there is that tendency (which can somehow get back to ZPE). Furthermore, it seems

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-02 Thread RC Macaulay
, 2005 6:39 AM Subject: Re: Spiral helixes At 09:40 am 02-05-05 +, Grimer wrote: I was curious as to what would happen if I made a plait of three strings and drew one of them out. I used a fairly stiff plastic string, poly-something, and loosely plaited the three strands. The ends of each strand

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-01 Thread Harvey Norris
--- Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank and Richard, Your a cord of three strands is not quickly broken quote is interesting. Could this have referred to a braid or plait I wonder. With only two polarities, one might ask why have three-phase at all, or else... if there is

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-01 Thread Grimer
At 08:13 am 30-04-05 -0700, you wrote: Frank and Richard, Your a cord of three strands is not quickly broken quote is interesting. Could this have referred to a braid or plait I wonder. Most likely. And an anthropologist might suspect that somewhere back in prehistory, women taught men that

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-05-01 Thread Harvey Norris
--- Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't it Tesla who first hit upon the three phase notion? A popular misconception indeed... I have combed through early Tesla writings contained in the somewhat unimpresssive Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla by Thomas Commerford Martin

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-04-30 Thread Grimer
At 10:40 pm 28-04-05 -0500, you wrote: Observing the vortex produced in a clear plexiglas tank of water by a high speed rotating member facing down with a clockwise rotation I notice the cone of the vortex is at the surface and counterclockwise due to the vortex curling 180 degrees from the

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-04-30 Thread RC Macaulay
or risk the tar brush. Only Vortexians are immune. Richard - Original Message - From: Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Spiral helixes At 10:40 pm 28-04-05 -0500, you wrote: Observing the vortex produced in a clear

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-04-30 Thread Jones Beene
Frank and Richard, Your a cord of three strands is not quickly broken quote is interesting. Could this have referred to a braid or plait I wonder. Most likely. And an anthropologist might suspect that somewhere back in prehistory, women taught men that plaiting animal or plant fibers, like they

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-04-30 Thread Terry Blanton
Jones Beene wrote: Terry probably knows the answer... or maybe it is part of the mystery of a spiral helix... ;-) It's nice to have friends. Euclid: Three points determine a plane.

Re: Spiral helixes

2005-04-30 Thread Mark S Bilk
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911 The most common industrial means of obtaining motive power from electricity is the induction motor; these can be built very simply and cheaply if powered by three-phase AC, since an array of 3 (or 6, 9, etc.) stator

Spiral helixes

2005-04-28 Thread RC Macaulay
Observing the vortex produced in a clear plexiglas tank of water by a high speed rotating member facing down with a clockwise rotation I notice the cone of the vortex is at the surface and counterclockwise due to the vortex curling 180 degrees from the face of the rotating member up to the