Re: Physics debate
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:44 pm
It’s been beaten to death @leon. Another diagram won’t change anything. Folks either accept and understand the laws of physics or they don’t.
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Hold on, I thought that it has finally been settled that the force it takes the heel to raise is applied to the lever (boot, foot musculature, and bones [tarsals]) upon which said force is transmitted to the ball of the foot and to the ski in front of balance point.GrimSurfer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:56 pmMy original post simply stated that the way some folks think NN 3 pin 75 mm cable bindings work isn’t the way they actually work (if the laws of physics are right, which they invariably are in such cases).lowangle al wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:33 pmI think you have demonstrated a great enough interest in cable bindings to warrant getting a pair to try for yourself.
If you feel offended by this, write your congressman or declare jihad on the Royal Society. You could even protest outside the National Academy of Science.
On the contrary, this post is very active in deed. I saw the ski diagrams, but not one with force vectors everyone is arguing about. @GrimSurfer I think that if there is a misunderstanding of Newtonian dynamics, and Newtonian dynamics are best understood with free-body force vector diagrams, then this discussion or argument or whatever it is can really benefit from an accurate force diagram. I can give it a try but leaving this task to a non-physicist risks muddying the discussion rather than clarifying it.GrimSurfer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:44 pmIt’s been beaten to death @leon. Another diagram won’t change anything. Folks either accept and understand the laws of physics or they don’t.
leon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:56 pmOn the contrary, this post is very active in deed. I saw the ski diagrams, but not one with force vectors everyone is arguing about. @GrimSurfer I think that if there is a misunderstanding of Newtonian dynamics, and Newtonian dynamics are best understood with free-body force vector diagrams, then this discussion or argument or whatever it is can really benefit from an accurate force diagram. I can give it a try but leaving this task to a non-physicist risks muddying the discussion rather than clarifying it.GrimSurfer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:44 pmIt’s been beaten to death @leon. Another diagram won’t change anything. Folks either accept and understand the laws of physics or they don’t.
[/quo@leon Find me one accomplished Telemark skier that will say that a cable or NTN binding does not transfer the energy from lifting the heel to an area in the front of the ski beyond balance point. Just find one.
Your description makes total sense. I’m just trying to visualize the force vectors in one neat diagram and my brain is incapable (or unwilling) to convert your beautiful prose to dots and arrows. Maybe it’s impossible to visualize the elegant and ephemeral forces in a telemark turn with a group of arrows in a 2-dimensional plane, but I figured if anyone can do it it’s the physics brain trust in this discussion.fisheater wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:54 pmHold on, I thought that it has finally been settled that the force it takes the heel to raise is applied to the lever (boot, foot musculature, and bones [tarsals]) upon which said force is transmitted to the ball of the foot and to the ski in front of balance point.
@lowangle al, STRICTLY speaking, cables to not CREATE force.lowangle al wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:08 pmIf Isaac Newton skied, he'd be telling you that cables create force. He'd probably wonder if you were dropped on your head.
I think this is all one big misunderstanding, based on colloquial usage of terminology.GrimSurfer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:56 pmMy original post simply stated that the way some folks think NN 3 pin 75 mm cable bindings work isn’t the way they actually work (if the laws of physics are right, which they invariably are in such cases).lowangle al wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:33 pmI think you have demonstrated a great enough interest in cable bindings to warrant getting a pair to try for yourself.
If you feel offended by this, write your congressman or declare jihad on the Royal Society. You could even protest outside the National Academy of Science.
Leon, I also find this discussion fascinating. I'm new to to the telemark turn, and don't find it particularly difficult to perform. But I still don't really understand the theory behind it or why it works. It's has however made me want to try more active bindings however and get more of a feeling for the energy transfer described.leon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:42 pmThis is a really fascinating discussion. Not sure if it will help my skiing, but perhaps expand my background knowledge of mechanics.
I am not a physicist, but I tried to follow along as best as I could. There were a few mentions of free-body diagrams by @GrimSurfer I believe, maybe others as well. Perhaps one of the physics-inclined members, or @GrimSurfer himself, can draw and post the free-body diagram of forces at play. I think it would really summarize the discussion well and perhaps give everyone a visual representation of the forces and dynamics between the snow surface, ski, binding, boot, and body.
I agree with what you say, and i know you are not generalizing, but i want to emphasize that there are several scientists here who aren't particularly pedantic about terminology or trying to educate anyone. That the increasing cable tension generates rotational torque of the ski around the pivot point, resulting in increased pressure under the front of the ski is obvious to me. And my impression is that that is also the viewpoint of the telemarkers here.Stephen wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:48 pmI think this is all one big misunderstanding, based on colloquial usage of terminology.GrimSurfer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:56 pmMy original post simply stated that the way some folks think NN 3 pin 75 mm cable bindings work isn’t the way they actually work (if the laws of physics are right, which they invariably are in such cases).lowangle al wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:33 pmI think you have demonstrated a great enough interest in cable bindings to warrant getting a pair to try for yourself.
If you feel offended by this, write your congressman or declare jihad on the Royal Society. You could even protest outside the National Academy of Science.
The colloquial's understand what they mean among one another.
When a scientist shows up and tries to "educate" them, things go pear shaped.
No disrespect meant to anyone, honest.