28 November 2010

Blogging delayed by prolate spheroids

Defined and illustrated at Wikipedia, clarified at Physics Buzz.

3 comments:

  1. "Uses: The prolate spheroid is the shape of the ball in several sports...", ahh I see :)

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  2. My rule of thumb: prolate : Bert, oblate : Ernie

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  3. I hope you do not suffer the curse of being a Bills fan... my poor husband is tearing his hair out. As usual.

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