Re: Q: Why is Arlen such a doofus? (was Re: Q: Why do Apple trolls know nothing about anything?

On 2024-11-11 18:18, Andrews wrote:

*Hemidactylus* wrote on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:17:30 +0000 :
 

Aren't you giving the inconsequential twit way too much consideration here?
That's where his power exists, in pushing your buttons. Now he's getting
the attention he craves to make himself feel like he's not really the loser
others know he is. A year from now we will still be hearing him crow about
catenaries. Best to just let him rant at a wall instead.

  But since you pulled Alan G. Baker's post out of my killfile, notice that
the catenary is one of the most fundamental curves, where the morons think
curves can only be in the Y axis but there's nothing stopping curves from
existing on the x axis (or any axis for that matter, even 4D spacetime).
  <http://lastufka.net/lab/cars/why/raceit.htm>
  "This race report features two cars named "Typical" and "Best" racing
   on an Official AWANA Track with a catenary transition... The Track
   Profile follows with the name of the track and its configuration...
   Because a catenary transition model was selected, specifics of the
   catenary transition appear below the character sketch of the track.
   Marks in the track sketch represent the track surface..."

That's from a page about an ancient DOS program (copyright 1997 and 2004)...
...which is about racing cars down a RAMP.
All forces on the car are from gravity.
Not a car going around a curve where the forces are generated by braking, steering, and accelerating (within the limits of the friction circle; do you even know what that is?)

 The problem with the Apple trolls is they have no education so they don't
know even the most basic of curves, which, let's face it, are important.
 The important aspect of a catenary is the force exerted is uniform with
respect to length of the catenary curve - which is important to racing.

Why?
What do you mean by "uniform with respect to the length of the catenary curve"?
The forces that a car can generate while cornering AREN'T uniform; particularly when accelerating out of the corner.

 Even a moving charge in a uniform electric field travels along a catenary
such that every part of the catenary is in perfect equilibrium.

Cite, please!