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Sunday, August 28, 2011. Randomness and its constant uniformity. Random - How do you perceive it? For most of us, these are the defining words for "Randomness". When you think about it, sometimes anything random seems to exhibit the most consistent behaviour. I thought of it and have come up with certain examples, the cases in which randomness is not really random! 1) A non-crystalline material. My prof once asked me why they add small stones to cement and mix it thoroughly. Why? No, they call it uniform...
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Friday, January 2, 2009. Science in Sports - The Magnus Effect. My brother looks back at the cylindrical filter of a reverse osmosis unit substituted for a lone stump, toppled by the plastic ball I threw. He had played a perfect forward defense that would have made Rahul Dravid proud! So, what is the Magnus Effect? When a cylindrical body or a spherical spins and moves in one direction through a fluid, experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of its velocity. This force is given by the relation,.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009. Add an icon to the page title! For long I wanted to change the "B" icon thats displayed alogside the title of every blogger blog and have a unique icon for this blog. As usual, i approached Google for help and found one too! Now let me write how I changed the usual icon and used this "T" (For Techster, ofcourse! Icon The works involved in this are. I) Create an icon. Ii) Uploaded it to any web server. Iii) Use that for your blogger blog. Thursday, February 12, 2009. The Iridi...
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Monday, May 18, 2009. I feel the need for some research! And yeah, as I promised, my next post will be about the composite used in the construction of the Airbus A380. Thursday, May 14, 2009. Landing Gear of the Airbus A380. Before writing this article, I just want to say - "I'M BACK! And they even showed a footage of a Korean Airlines' Boeing plane landing safely in a crosswind with ONLY ONE wheel touching down first. That very well described how strong they ought to be! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Thursday, September 1, 2011. A conflict in the mind of a Robot. Author: Siva Sankar, CEG, Anna University. But it won’t be Funny. Well what trap are we talking about? Is something wrong with the robot? No nothing will be wrong with them— only with us. Surely you know the fundamental First Law of Robotics. Certainly, “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow him to come to harm”. How nicely put but what kind of harm? What about hurt feelings? What about deflation of one’s ego?
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Monday, December 29, 2008. Well, I was wondering how could water under pressurised condition(yeah, i know liquids are incompressible) ever propel a rocket! That was when i first saw the problem statement of the ROCKETRY event of Kurukshetra '08 and decided this is not for me! Now when I look into this field, I'm really amazed by the amount of physics involved with water rockets(or bottle rockets)! Now that i'm so impressed by the working of water rockets, i'm determined to post a small article on it!
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009. The power of Composites. Can a sheet of aluminium withstand an impact of a 2kg bird at 700 kmph? It can't. Can the same impact be withstood by a sheet of fibre glass? I'm not sure or may be not. But a sheet of Aluminium reinforced with glass fibres? Yeah, it can. And thats the material used for making the body of the Airbus A380. So, there is need for reinforcement of the alloy with some stronger material. Surprisingly, the engineers have chosen glass! A typical fiberglass sheet.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011. A conflict in the mind of a Robot. Author: Siva Sankar, CEG, Anna University. But it won’t be Funny. Well what trap are we talking about? Is something wrong with the robot? No nothing will be wrong with them— only with us. Surely you know the fundamental First Law of Robotics. Certainly, “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow him to come to harm”. How nicely put but what kind of harm? What about hurt feelings? What about deflation of one’s ego?
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Friday, April 24, 2009. Well, I'm back to post about something after quite a long time! I can tell you what I want to tell using a simple equation. Practical examinations End-Semester exams IPL = No time for blogging ". With exams around, I dont think I'll find time to post anything in the coming fortnight. Hoping to get back with a bang from May 12th(Yeah, thats when the exams get over). Saturday, April 11, 2009. The venue for baja 2010 is the same as that of 2009 - Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh. As we'...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009. 1) Locating all the 4 food particles. 2) Locating the food particle that is nearest to the snake's position. 3) An initial instruction for navigation towards the food(avoiding the boundary). 4) Checking whether the initial instruction is a valid move(bumping into yourself or the opponent means you are out of the game! And giving a valid and safe instruction. This code works efficiently until the randomly generated food makes you move in such a way that you make a trap for yourself!
