At 15:51 4/18/2005, you wrote: >Hi Conrad > >I posted this a couple years back. A rather neat applet that shows how >lever arm lengths change and how torque works in action. Lots of ways of >playing around with the lever in the applet. > >http://www.ngsir.netfirms.com/englishhtm/Torque.htm >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Neat applet, but it IMMHO is too simple for a proper representation of an angled capstan. If I translate my gut feelings, and some of the other responses to this thread, properly, {not a given, for sure} the force applied to the top of the capstan is only equal to the force felt by the keystick at the bottom of the capstan if/when the capstan is perpendicular to the keystick. ANY angle of the capstan throws another factor into the equation which the applet does not include. Call out a vector squadron... Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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