From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!ljlbio.com!jowicki From: jowicki@ljlbio.com (Jack Owicki) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: FW: Calc. Velocity of Falling Cows Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:37:44 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 35 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Reminds me of the old joke about the physicist's model of a cow...a spherical body isotropically radiating milk. ...Jack ---------- From: dek@socrates.ucsf.edu [SMTP:dek@socrates.ucsf.edu] Sent: Friday, March 13, 1998 9:50 AM To: biophys@net.bio.net Subject: Re: Calc. Velocity of Falling Cows In article <199803131524.JAA05679@xhost4>, zauhar@elara.tripos.com wrote: > The terminal velocity calculation is what's most interesting - > is Stoke's law a reasonable approximation for something as big > as a cow? I would think not.... > > Randy it also depends whether the cow is spherical (a common enough assumption) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Email: dek@cgl.ucsf.edu David Konerding WWW: http://picasso.ucsf.edu/~dek ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Snail: Graduate Group in Biophysics Medical Sciences 926, Box 0446 University of California San Francisco, CA 94143 .