Mathematical Analysis of an Ideal ZED

[MarkE]

Well, I am pleased that I was able to get all the right answers to the Quiz, and allow me to point out that LibreEnergia's answers are also correctly encoded in 42-ness.

What I want to know is this..... did anyone get a different answer for Figure 1 than for Figure 3? Because that just might be the key to understanding Travis and the Zeds.....

Webby declined to take the quiz.  But from his ongoing spreadsheet follies it may well be that he did something such as you suggest.

[mrwayne]

You may have covered the "unequal" example - if so Sorry for the repeat.

Wayne

[MarkE]

You may have covered the "unequal" example - if so Sorry for the repeat.

Wayne

LOL.

[mondrasek]

I had an interesting thought this morning.  Referring back to the State 1X diagram that MarkE presented to be in a true state of rest, unlike the State 1 diagram.  State 1X would occur if the Ideal ZED in State 1 is unrestrained, since there are buoyant forces from the displaced water due to the riser walls extending below the water level.

In order to come to rest at State 1X the risers all lift and cause each to have a slight negative buoyancy due to a negative water head.  The sum of the positive buoyancies due to water displaced by the riser walls and the negative buoyancies due to the negative water displaced by the negative water head is, of course, zero.  But it also creates a negative pressure (vacuum) in the pod chamber.  This means that the water charge needed to go from State 1X to State 2 would begin at a negative pressure, and not zero as I had intended when designing this model for Analysis.  But is this significant at all?

[mrwayne]

Opps Typo..

The head represented by the Purple lines, Is the head that "Effects" the Si of the bottom of the wall surface.

Thanks