[personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou! (fwd)

[Mike Jaixen]

I think it all depends on how you flip them, and if
you try to flip them into something.

--- Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:

> Flip 200? Holy crap, I wouldn't get past 5!
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
> Of Skylar Dodds
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:49 AM
> To: Husker List
> Subject: Re: [personal] RE: [Husker] And now Mizzou!
> (fwd)
> 
> 
> Hello Husker Fans,
> 
> Wow, Friday evenings at the Nolan residence must be
> intense!  :)
> 
> But to give you credit, I haven't the time nor the
> patience (internet
> or not) to flip a coin 1000 times.
> 
> I'm quite certain that after flip 200 I'd be moving
> on to something
> else.
> 
> -- 
> Go Skers,
>  Skylar                           
> mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
> 
> >> Well, that all depends on whether the coin is a
> Nebraska state quarter or a Missouri one. Also, who
> is flipping the coin? Is there wind to influence the
> flip? ;)
> 
> MN> I haven't tested any of the state quarters, but
> I did test the 'sandwich'
> MN> quarter versus a silver quarter some years ago,
> by doing over 1000 coin
> MN> flips with 5 quarters of each type, flipping 
> onto a solid surface.  This
> MN> took me quite a few hours, about 2 1/2 days as I
> recall, but it was
> MN> before we had the Internet to consume all our
> spare time.  :-)
> 
> MN> My conclusion was that the sandwich quarter was
> slightly more biased in
> MN> favor of heads than a silver quarter was.  I
> think it has to do with
> MN> the physics of the surfaces.
> 
> MN> BTW, one of my favorite stats-related questions
> in college was this:
> 
> MN> You're given a number of quarters and a roll of
> tape.  How many quarters
> MN> do you have to tape together in a stack until
> the odds are roughly
> MN> even that you will get 'heads', 'tails', or
> 'edge'?
> 
> MN> It turns out there is a solution to the problem
> based on the ratio of the
> MN> diameter of the coin to its thickness, but it is
> a non-trivial problem in
> MN> mechanical dynamics.
> 
> MN> Engineers are weird, another bull-session
> question we used to debate 
> MN> had to do with how hard the Jolly Green Giant
> would have to push on the
> MN> John Hancock building in Chicago to topple it. 
> (This one is related to
> MN> the wind strength question that engineers have
> to consider when analyzing
> MN> the plans for a tall bulding, so it isn't just
> an 'academic' issue.)
> MN> --
> MN> Mike Nolan


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


 
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