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Having skimmed the paper...Can you all help me interpret the findings? It appears that the longer you ride the swing, the farther you can jump tending toward in
by cwoolfe 3y ago
Having skimmed the paper...Can you all help me interpret the findings? It appears that the longer you ride the swing, the farther you can jump tending toward infinity? I was looking for some kind of min/max for optimization. What am I missing?
- chrischen 3y agoSame. What is the actual angle that one should jump at to maximize distance?
- SamBam 3y agoI think that the author felt that question had already been answered sufficiently by other papers -- his citations 1 and 2. The author was interested in adding pumping to the model, but as far as I can understand the pumping equations only work for low angles, so he restricted his work to those low angles. Within that range, the distance only increases as the angle increases. Someone can correct me if I've misunderstood.