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Just in time for a seasonal refresh.
School supplies have taken over the end caps of aisles at Target, and my Facebook feed is nothing but videos of apple recipes—all of which means one thing. Fall is here, or at least peeking around the corner, despite the fact that it's still 90 degrees-plus across the South and the technical start isn't until later this month. (Don't let Mama catch you in white kicks though.)
If the very theoretical change in seasons has you itching for a change indoors as well, there's one big way you could refresh for fall—and be perfectly on-trend. Color is back, and it's big. Un-clutch the pearls, your white farmhouse looks are safe for now too—one can add rich color in subtle ways. But big or small, color is creeping back in, and I say go big or go beige. (Read: go big, please.)
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Tonight starts Purim – it's a one-day holiday celebrating…well, it's another one of those holidays celebrating survival! The basic story can be found here.
The most traditional food for Purim is hamantaschen. It's a cookie folded to be triangular, with a filling in the middle. I made some of these today using my favorite recipe, and they turned out great. There are more traditional recipes for this cookie that make a thinner dough that folds better than this one, but this one makes such a yummy cookie, and you can still shape it and fold it so that it makes and holds its shape.
Ingredients (makes 2-3 dozen):
2 sticks butter
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2-1/2 c. flour
1 cup pecans, chopped into small bits
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
filling: any flavor jam, jelly, preserve, or meltable candy
Preheat the oven to 350*.
Cream together the butter and sugar in the Kitchenaid, then add the egg and vanilla. Once all that comes together, put the mixer on low and add the flour, pecans, salt, and baking powder. Put the dough into a ziploc bag and refrigerate at least a couple of hours – overnight is good.
Now, I don't enjoy rolling dough so I just shape these with my hands, but these can be rolled out and cut into circles if you like. I just make a circle shape, make an indentation with my finger in the middle for the filling:
Put some preserves in the middle (I used strawberry for this one), and then fold up the sides so that it takes on a triangle shape that holds in the filling:
After about 20 minutes, they are all done:
The nice thing is that these taste a little like pecan sandies, so if you like you can make some of them into hamantaschen and the rest into just regular drop cookies. Av likes these with Hershey kisses as the filling, or those little mini Reese cups. They are really good no matter what you use!

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I have always disappeared in one way or another. The history's there; I just had to write this blog to discover it and understand why.
My family lived in New Hampshire in a small ranch house across the street from Lake Winnisquam. I shared a bedroom with my sister who is six years younger. My brother, two years younger had his own room. The walls were thin, the commotion pretty constant, and finding privacy almost impossible. Dad used to tease me about spending so much time in the bathroom, the only room where no one barged in or bothered me unless it was an emergency.
I first disappeared into a typical pre-teen refuge, burrowing down after bedtime under my blanket where I would read or write in my diary by penlight with one ear bud plugged into my transistor radio. Even though I had school the next day I would stay up until one or two in the morning, leaving my parents dumbfounded as to why, when in the morning, I was so miserable to get out of bed. Sometimes my dad resorted to pulling the pillow out from under my head and yanking back the covers. One time he sprinkled my face with cold water. My escape was discovered one night when I fell asleep, the transistor radio cord unplugged, and rock-'n'-roll woke my parents.
That was around the time the Beatles took over my life and I soon disappeared into a fantasy world with three other friends. We formed a secret club, each of us becoming "the bird" of our favorite Beatle and writing stories about our "luv" and then exchanging them. That only lasted until one of the parents caught Ringo's bird passing a rather risqué story to John's bird. We had to disband. After that, I didn't dare write stories.
Next, I disappeared into my diary, filling it with a teenage angst pot of longing for love and someone to understand me, a place to help me figure out what to do with classmate troubles and old-fashioned, strict parents.
Then the summer after turning fourteen, I wrote in my diary that I'd fallen in love.
Because we lived on the opposite side of the road from the lake, we had to use the right-of-way at the west end to go swimming. That summer I met and fell for a boy from Boston who was there with his family vacationing in one of the summer cabins. His name was Bruce, but his cousin called him "Punk," as I would. To my astonishment this handsome lad liked me. I kept him a secret as my dad thought all boys from Boston were "bad seeds." Punk and I would meet and hang out at the right-of-way during the day and a few times we met in the evening to be alone. I wore peddle-pushers and a mod satin shirt with puff sleeves and twenty-five tiny buttons down the front. I wasn't ready for the heavy petting. I only wanted to kiss him, and those buttons kept me safe.
After Punk returned to Boston without conquering that blouse, a few letters followed, but soon my first love faded away. My parents never saw the letters as I brought in the mail every day, so I was safe from discovery, or so I thought.
One night at dinner, Dad asked about the boy from Boston.
I can't remember what I said, but I must have asked him how he knew, and he said, "You shouldn't leave your diary out and open on your desk."
I waited for some kind of punishment while I went from fear of discovery (Oh, my god, what had I written? What had he read?) to anger at this breach of my privacy. (What gave him the right to read my diary? And how could it have been open on my desk? I always lock it and hide it away.)
I don't know what happened to that diary. I wish I had it now. After that, I only wrote notes to my girlfriends, poems, and school reports. For my escape, I started drawing and painting instead.
When the fights with my dad increased, I would retreat to the right-of-way and sit under the old tree where Punk and I made out. The roots that protruded above ground held me between them and I would lose myself in the cry of loons, the twinkle of lights from cabins across the lake, the smell of bar-b-ques, and the accompanying laughter and voices of other families that drifted to me over the water's dark surface. I often took a book and could stay there for hours.
Life continued and changed many times, and so did my reason for and avenue of disappearing. Whenever life became too noisy and stressful, whenever I needed to escape trying times—the fear of moving to a new land three-thousand miles from home, the loneliness of being that far away with a three year old, divorcing an abusive first husband, the craziness of an out-of-control seventies and drug culture—I would lock the door of my house, hang up a do not disturb sign and paint or draw while listening to music. For days, I would do this, often having to tell those who stopped by, "Yes, sorry, that sign does mean you," even when it was a new friend.
And here in the writing of this blog is where a memory brought an epiphany.
One day, after school, either my mom or dad forgot to bring home birdseed. Knowing that kids often don't give their parents enough heads-up time about these things, I probably waited until the last minute to tell them I needed birdseed.
I walked to the local market and bought wild birdseed, the only kind they had. Just before dinner, as mom was cooking and dad was reading the paper at the kitchen table, Kippy started to choke. I took him from his cage. A sunflower seed was caught in his throat. I yelled for my mom and dad, raced to the kitchen with him in my hands, crying, as I watched my bird struggling and falling down. Mom continued to cook, dad read his paper. They looked over, but by the time they responded, Kippy was dead. I think I remember someone saying, "It was only a bird." Maybe not, but I heard it in my heart.
Something lodged in me that day, something that equates with how it feels to have something dying in me. I tried to feed my parakeet so it wouldn't starve, and I had the wrong food, so Kippy died. No one from the outside helped. And that's what brought me to this conclusion as to why I disappear.
I believe that when creative people are threatened with the outcome of being a "starving artist," it's a way to discourage us from taking hold of our creative life. (My dad: "You are not going to be a starving artist; you will go to college to be a teacher, nurse or secretary.") If you're not being productive in the traditional sense, when you're seen as selfish or self indulgent because you want to follow your art, your passion, then you're gifted a sense of guilt.
The real threat, however, is being starved of time, freedom and the opportunity to create. The real threat is not taking care of our true selves. The real threat is listening to that inner "guilt pusher" that says you should be doing something else.
In the past six months I have cracked a rib, had oral surgery, helped plan a big party for my mom's 90th birthday, gone to that party in Florida, returned home to the worst sinus infection I'd ever had, and during this time I had to make a decision: while I healed from these various health issues, I could concentrate on writing my novel or continue to take time from that writing and blog.
I took care of myself. I met with a few friends, but stayed home most of the time and was as quiet as I could be as I worked on my novel. I had breakthroughs. I had a-ha moments. I held myself in my hands and removed that sunflower seed. I fed myself the right food.
And the irony was, when I tried to blog in November, the universe slapped me silly. My blog feed would not work. No matter what I did, I could not get Feedburner to send to my email recipients. I didn't need a clearer message. I went back to work on my novel.
Since then, life has allowed a little time, and I switched my blog email feed to a reliable one.
Hopefully, for those of you out there who have had a rough time lately—and I've read and heard many of your stories—I hope this brings some kind of epiphany for you, too. Even if you are not an artist or writer, you have a creative soul. We all do.
Last year in January, astrologer Johanna Mitchell said about 2012, "It's a great year if you're going to change. It's not such a good year if you can't find inspiration in chaos."
My discovery makes me wonder if others out there have found themselves "disappearing," or retreating, or whatever name you put on it. I wonder if you found your creative soul or true north in all that chaos and if you took the time to feed what was starving.
So much of our time is spent in trying to figure out what to do when we really know all along what we need; for some reason it seems counter-intuitive to care for ourselves. That's when I go back to the context of "starving artist." It all depends on who you're listening to.
Hugs to all,
Other blog posts that you might enjoy:
Kristen Lamb's Blog
"Author Blogging: You're Doing It Wrong"
I think blogging is a wast of time.
"Get Rid of "Should" Once and for All"
"They Call Me the Wanderer"
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At the back and side are platforms with a Magic Pot. These will grant Astral Realignment to players, enabling them to damage Thanatos. Periodically, ghosts called Sandmen will try to attack these pots, and so a healer should be ready to heal them.
Astral Realignment is only granted to one party at a time, so the others must deal with both the Sandmen as well as Nemesis voidsent that continually show up.
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I promise, with the next blog, there will be no math involved. I noticed that I'm telling you it's day 361 today…except that would indicate that there are only 363 days in a year [please note that I edited this and went back to clean up some math]. Clearly, I am somewhat impaired in the math department. I guess that's why I chose the number 5 in the first place: it's all on one hand.
The weather was rather dramatic today (hurricane dregs and storm swells) and I got to drive in it for about 4 hours. I also got to wait around at an unfamiliar court room with almost nothing to do for a brief appearance that was over 2 hours late getting going.
I was late picking up my kid, and I left my cell phone at home.
At least I can feel fairly confident in guessing that tomorrow can't be worse. Right?
For those of you who enjoy my daily moaning and complaining (plus the times I write about stuff less whiny than this) I want to assure you that I will be back blogging on December 1st. I plan to concoct a survey which I will post this weekend (perhaps as 5Down's last entry) so I can glean some insight into what my faithful readers liked/didn't like and the direction I should head next. My plan is to stick with the same name, but change course. This may involve a new look, too, so you'll have to stay tuned (and patient).
I find myself really looking forward to 5Downing the hassle of 5Downing every day. Days like today really are hard to push past to perform my purging magic. I think we'll all enjoy the break, but I honestly think we've all adapted our viewpoint on the accumulation of clutter. We've all mostly given up on gathering up crap.* Now it's almost time to enjoy the rewards without the pressure. Non-material rewards, that is.
Day 363 scorecard: 1815 down, 10 to go
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A couple of weeks ago, I told you all that I've been keeping the biggest secret ever. Of course, I understand the reasons why I've had to keep schtum, but maintaining my silence has been one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. In fact, I'll go one step further and say it's been torture. I'm such a scream and shout it from the rooftops kind of person!
Anyway, having been given the go-ahead to reveal all (drum roll, please) I'd like you to raise a glass for my son, Benjamin, and his beautiful wife, Cindy…
Yes, everyone, (getting tearful as I type this) they're going to have a baby!
I know, I know, I'm way too young to be a grandmother (and too glamorous, I hear you say – obviously) but I soooooo can't wait. This baby is an absolute gift. And to us, at least, already the most adored little being on the planet.
I wonder if we'll have a little boy to add to our fine male Tullett specimens?
Or a little girl to make the numbers up?
Not that it matters, either way, as long as the baby's healthy.
Although the happy parents-to-be do plan on finding out the sex and I, for one, can't wait… Knitting needles at the ready.
So there you have it. That's what I've been forced to keep to myself these last few weeks.
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Two Russian pilots have been killed after their helicopter was shot down by Isis (Islamic State) fighters over Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Mi-25 helicopter was brought down over Palmyra, Homs yesterday (8 July).
The crew had successfully thwarted advancing terrorists, but were struck as they returned to base.
An official statement from the Ministry of Defence said: "On July 8, Russian military pilot-instructors Evgeny Dolgin and Ryafagat Khabibulin, were conducting a calibration flight on a Syrian Mi-25 (export version of the Mi-24) helicopter loaded with ammunition in the province of Homs.
"The crew received a request from the Syrian command group to help defeat the advancing terrorists and fire for effect. The captain of the aircraft, Ryafagat Khabibulin, made the decision to attack.
"Having spent their ammunition, while turning back to the base, the helicopter was shot down by terrorists from the ground and crashed in an area controlled by the Syrian government. The crew did not survive."
The Ministry said that both pilots will posthumously receive state awards for their actions Mail Online reports. A statement from IS (Daesh), translated by the ISIS-affiliated Amaaq news agency, confirmed the attack. It read: "By Allah's grace alone, the soldiers of the Khilafah launched an attack with heavy weapons on Nusayri regime locations east of the silos in Tadmur city.
"The Mujahidin managed to take control over three checkpoints of the apostates, where afterwards, one of the knights of the shahada managed to advance with his booby-trapped BMP and blow it up amid a gathering of elements from the army and the Rafidi militia elements that support them, killing and injuring dozens.
"In the meantime, the soldiers of the Khilafah shot down a Russian helicopter as it attempted to raid their locations, which led to destroying it and killing those on board and all praise is due to Allah."
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Time to examine when to use a comma.
The obvious starting point is the coordinate comma. These are very closely related to comma splices because they form a part of the solution to comma splices, so this should be quite easy:).
A coordinate comma is used with a coordinate conjunction in a compound sentence to show where one clause ends and the other begins.
Here are some examples:
- John went running, and he sprained his ankle.
- It began to rain, so they ran inside.
- She had watched the food carefully, yet it had burned at the bottom of the pot.
Tip: Remember the coordinate conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS for short)
Caution: Sometimes, a sentence comes up that looks like it consists of two main clauses. The sentence really has a compound predicate. A compound predicate consists of two actions performed by the same person or people.
An example:
- I turned the corner and ran smack into a patrol car.
To place a comma in front of this coordinate conjunction above would be incorrect because "I" performs the second action as well. That second action is still necessary to complete the full meaning of the sentence. If a comma were to be placed in front of the coordinate conjunction, it would separate essential elements from each other (more about this under Commas and Essential Elements).
Just as using a comma incorrectly can create a comma splice error, so omitting a comma from a compound sentence which requires a comma can create an error called a run-on or fused sentence.
For example:
- I don't eat broccoli and my sister doesn't eat cauliflower.
This run-on/fused sentence needs some clearer boundaries for its two identifiable compound parts.
- Replace the coordinate conjunction with a period:
I don't eat broccoli. My sister doesn't eat cauliflower.
- Replace the coordinate conjunction with a semi-colon:
I don't eat broccoli; my sister doesn't eat cauliflower.
- Place a comma in front of the coordinate conjunction:
I don't eat broccoli, and my sister doesn't eat cauliflower.
I think most times just using the coordinate comma for the coordinate conjunction would be enough.
Some quick exercise in the next post.


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The reality star and Scott Disick welcomed their third child on Sunday, PEOPLE confirms.
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Originally posted Dec. 14: Kourtney Kardashian just gave her son a pretty great birthday gift: a little brother!
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and Scott Disick welcomed their third child, a boy, on Sunday, Dec. 14, PEOPLE confirms — the same day their son Mason Dash turned 5.
The new baby also joins big sister Penelope Scotland, 2.
Kardashian, 35, revealed she was having a boy on last week's episode of Kourtney and Khloé Take the Hamptons on E!
"It's going to be perfect for our family," she said.
As for Mason, he still got a special birthday celebration. His famous family, including aunts Khloé Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, threw him an early Nightmare Before Christmas-themed bash in November.
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Some quick concepts for a new MOS album. A nice job to play with and a great opportunity for me to learn a bit more Cinema 4D, which I seem to be enjoying at the mo, whooop!
Some quick concepts for a new MOS album. A nice job to play with and a great opportunity for me to learn a bit more Cinema 4D, which I seem to be enjoying at the mo, whooop!
I created this polygon based 'SN' stamp for Mr Naden, after chatting with him, it was clear that her needed something that was versatile enough to work real well within 3D animations, video and in print. Seans portfolio is vast, no wonder after his 25 years in the 3D business, I created this stamp so that he can start to get more ownership & recognition of his work (and also have some form of funky foldout mailer type thing).
My friends over at Docnet wanted a unique way to demonstrate their bespoke E-Commerce platform. They wanted to physically show customers how it all works and doing it without all the techno jargon was paramount. We devised a simple office based store, showing the end to end process of what the shopping and shipping process required. Clients can now come in and have a brew and it shows them how it all works in a really simple way. I devised a little brand called 'Monster Tuck Shop' and applied it to an online outlet, some sweetie products and designed the shelving unit that demonstrates it all.
Whilst working with the guys over at Loaf, I was asked to design a site for the premium Safari brand, that they had just developed. Hartley's Safaris is not ordinary Safari, its posh, very posh! I designed the site to target a responsive audience and tailed the design to sit comfortable with the new brand.
Working with my buddies over at Bugler Smith I was asked to set a style for this Manchester United T.V Commercial. The creative was, that the information would be displayed through the use of a pop up book, the challange was to produce something quick enough to run along with the VO and to produce something that was on budget and on time.
Working with my good fiends over at Docnet I worked closely with their client 'Oiler & Boiler' to generate some stylish photography and a simple but slick web skin, this was applied to the Docnet 'Sprint E-Commerce' system them have put heart and soul into developing and advancing over the last 16 years.
Whilst working for the guys over at Canyon, I was asked to look at their existing branding. I got to the core of how Canyon work and created a simple graphic for this; the circle, this represents an inner message that they help their clients deliver. Canyon will peel the outer layers of any communication and take the essence of the message. To then translate it in a beautiful, creative and understandable way.
Working with my buddies at Bugler Smith, I was asked to produce a quick, simple and snappy video based info graphics idea. Taking the message that they wanted to communicate, I produced a storyboard and a series of assets to help out the motion guys, when they were producing animation. The video was sent via an email campaign using a click through method.
Whilst working for my friends over at creative spark. I produced creative and designed the packaging for the 'Motown Summer `classics' digipack and also produced story boards for the 'Motown Summer classics' T.V Commercial and art directed the edit to the supplied base track/vo.
I was approached by Crewroom to create some sort of memorable and visible ID within the Production Services Industry. Using a hi-vis style orange and creating an icon to become recognisable, I set off and produced an icon that has a nod to an aperture. It also had to have a strong use as a spray stencil for various bits of kit and cases. Once I had produced the ID, I was asked to help create some sort of sting to use on Crewrooms end slates. Working with Mike Instead AKA www.deerstalker.tv we produced a simple yet abstract little animation, Mike worked an all the 3D and animation I helped to get it in the right direction.
Whist working with my friends at The Fresh Group I came up with creative for a series of Amercan Golf T.V commercials, trying to increase brand awareness and shift a few seasonal products, whilst the PGA was on. We shot this in Big Shed Studios, Manchester. I directed the shoot and then sat in on the edits.
I do a fair bit for my mates over at Docnet and I've recently refreshed the old branding that I did for them, I designed a shiny new clean site to inform people about their unique E-Commerce offering.
I was asked to produce some ideas for a user centric home page for the fashion retailer Coggles. They wanted to capture the styles of each user so using a webcam and the users Coggles account. I thought that we could capture the users image and generate it using the brands that the user searches for or purchases. This would change over time as the users account information is passed to the mosaic generator.


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To achieve your ambitions, you need the right tools. And Pearle Vision's new, heartwarming spot is a reminder of that.
The ad, called "Olivia," follows a young girl with big dreams: She practices archery, she's interested in space, she's curious about history, and she's an aspiring tennis player. However, vision challenges keep getting in the way: She blinks as she enlarges the text on an iPad to read an article about Joan of Arc, and accidentally hits a ball onto her roof while playing tennis in her backyard.
Her mom (a glasses-wearer herself) notices her daughter's struggles with a concerned stare, and takes her into Pearle Vision. There, she's fitted for a pair of round, gold-wire-rimmed glasses. After her new frames are placed on her face, her eye doctor hands her a photo, earning an instant smile from Olivia. In the next shot, she posts that picture—a signed photo of legendary tennis player Billie Jean King, who is on the court in a pair of glasses that look just like Olivia's—on her wall of "Women Who Made History."
"We make it a positive experience by showing that something that she needs is something that she wants," Doug Zarkin, Pearle Vison's CMO, said. "And that happens naturally, through the recognition that the eyewear she's wearing is very much in keeping with one her icons, Billie Jean King. That's what the magic is."
Zarkin added that the touching spot (created with agency partner Energy BBDO) is one that also resonates, as one out of four school-age kids has an undiagnosed vision impairment. "The story of Olivia is a common story," he said. "This young girl has these big dreams and aspirations, but is being limited by a vision correction issue."
This campaign is a follow-up to "Ben's Glasses," the Clio Award-winning spot that premiered early last year. Like "Olivia," it shows a child—this time, one with a pair of glasses with the wrong prescription—struggling with his vision until his concerned parents take him to Pearle Vision. Both ads were born out of results from research Pearle Vision conducted into the "nature of trust" in the vision category, Zarkin said.
"Trust, in particular in eye care, is formed through a series of small moments," he said. "That really translates into things like the doctor getting to know a patient as a person and not rushing through an exam."
Zarkin added that "Olivia" is a continuation of the strategy first put on display in "Ben's Glasses." He said: "[Campaigns like these] help us to do more than sell glasses; it's really allowing us to earn trust in the neighborhoods that we operate in."
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Profiling the dynamics of a falling body— P. Lutus — Message Page — Copyright © 2009, P. Lutus Overview | Falling in a Vacuum | Differential Equations
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To navigate this multi-page article:
Use the drop-down lists and arrow icons located at the top and bottom of each page.
Click here to download the Sage worksheet used in preparing this article. The Sage worksheet cells in this article should function if pasted into Sage, but if this isn't the case, try downloading the entire worksheet to acquire what may have been inadvertently left out.
This page describes a physics problem that's more difficult than it may seem at first glance, and it presents a challenge for Sage in its present form. Terminal velocity calculations represent a practical use for the Calculus of differential equations, and that's the method we'll be using.
Let me clarify. There are a number of Web resources that provide a terminal velocity number for a given object mass and shape, and there are resources that tell you how long it takes to get to terminal velocity (although some of those results are wrong). But the methods presented here show how to derive an equation that accurately profiles an object's velocity (from zero to terminal) and position with respect to time, then compares the result with published results for the same problem, some correct, some not.
Apart from detailing the calculations behind free-fall, this page is also a Sage tutorial (as are all these pages), so even if the reader has no interest in a skydiver's rapid descent to earth, the methods used to obtain the result may be worth learning.
If we don't take air resistance into account, keeping track of a falling object is trivial — it's a matter of repeated integration. Copy these cell contents into Sage:# free-fall forms (no air resistance) var('a,v,p,g,t') aff(t,g) = -g vff(t,g) = integrate(aff,t) pff(t,g) = integrate(vff,t) show("a(t) = $" + latex(aff(t,g)) + "$") show("v(t) = $" + latex(vff(t,g)) + "$") show("p(t) = $" + latex(pff(t,g)) + "$")
We've used Sage to create three functions that can reliably provide acceleration, velocity and position for an object under the influence of gravity, in a place with no air to make things complicated.In physics, an object's velocity is the time integral of acceleration:(4)And its position is the time integral of velocity:(5)The meaning of the constants k1 and k2 will be explained below.
This is a very simple system — all we need is the value for gravitational acceleration at a particular location and all the other values follow from that. As it turns out, in a vacuum objects of different masses fall at the same rate (because inertial mass and gravitational mass are equal), so in the case of an object falling toward the moon's surface, we have a reliable way to predict its course over time.
Now before we move on the the complexities brought on by air pressure, let's look at the behavior of these functions.With respect to time, gravitational acceleration is a constant:In a vacuum, velocity increases linearly without bound:And as shown in equation (3) above, position changes proportional to the square of time:
All very simple. But remember for a later discussion, when we introduce air pressure, everything changes.
At this point we need to introduce differential equation (DE) notation:
y(t) describes a function whose argument is t. Let's say y(t) represents a vertical position in space and t represents time.
y'(t) (note the apostrophe) represents the first derivative of the function y(t). If y(t) defines a position, then y'(t) defines a velocity.
y''(t) (note the double apostrophe) represents the second derivative of y(t). If y(t) defines a position, then y''(t) defines an acceleration.
It's important to say there are many different notations to describe the relationship between a function and its derivatives. The above is the convention we'll be using in this article, but it is by no means the only way to describe a DE. Also, when we enter a DE into Sage, we have to translate this simple notation into one that is a bit more difficult to use and remember.
A differential equation is expressed as the relationship between a function and one or more of its derivatives. Here's how we would describe the previous section's time/motion equations using DE notation:
Equation number Equation Meaning (4) y''(t) = -g For any time t, the second derivative of position (acceleration) is equal to gravitational constant -g. (5) y'(0) = 0 At time zero, the first derivative of position (velocity) is zero (imagine a skydiver standing in the doorway of an airplane, neither ascending nor descending). (6) y(0) = h At time zero, the position is equal h, or height (the height at which the airplane is flying).
Now let's solve this DE using Sage. Remember, Sage's notation is very different from the above:var('t,g') y = function('y',t) de = diff(y,t,2) == -g soln = desolve(de,[y,t]) show("$y(t) = " + latex(soln) + "$")(7)
Okay, this result should look familiar from the prior discussion, with a few extra terms. Our differential equation "de" contains one statement — that the second derivative of position is equal to a gravitational constant (equation (4) above), but expressed in the notation Sage requires:
(8) diff(y,t,2) == -g
The result provided by "desolve" is correct — it is the result we arrived at earlier using integration (equation (3)) but with two constant terms k1 and k2 included in the result. These terms represent constants of integration: when a function is subjected to indefinite integration, a constant term is assumed to exist, which represents that function's prior history or initial value (equivalent terms). Since our result required two integrations (from acceleration to velocity, then velocity to position), there are two constants of integration. If we choose, we can use k1 and k2 to set initial values for position and velocity respectively. Here is an example:var('t,g,v_0') p(t,g,v_0) = soln.subs(k2 == v_0).subs(k1 == 0) show("$y(t) = " + latex(p(t,g,v_0)) + "$") plot(p(t,9.8,32),t,0,7,figsize=(4,3),axes_labels=(['Time seconds','Height meters']),gridlines=True)
In this example, I create a position function p(t,g,v0) that accepts a time argument t, a gravitational acceleration argument g, and an initial velocity argument v0. We can use the initial velocity argument to model the path of a thrown object — let's say at time zero we throw a ball into the air with a vertical velocity component of 32 meters/second — using these assumptions we can submit different time arguments to our function to see when and where the ball lands.
Just for fun, let's see exactly how long the ball stayed aloft — at what time did the ball cross over the zero line on the way down? Here's one way to find out:find_root(p(t,9.8,32.0),1,8)6.5306122448979593
Now for a result that's a bit more subtle — how high did the ball go? Obviously we could apply ½ the result above to our function as a time argument, but remember, we're preparing for problems later on in which there is air resistance and other complicating factors, so let's ignore the true simplicity of this function and pretend it's less well-behaved than it is. Here is one method (not the only one):top_time = find_root(diff(p(t,9.8,32.0),t),1,8) show(p(top_time,9.8,32.0))52.2448979591837
Well, that was a bit tricky. How does it work? Well, the expression "(diff(p(t,9.8,32.0),t)" takes the first derivative of our position function with respect to time, and the first derivative of position is velocity. And as it happens, at the top of the ball's flight, its velocity becomes zero, which allows me to use "find_root" to locate that point. Here is a plot of the ball's velocity on the same scale as the earlier position plot:show(diff(p(t,9.8,32),t)) plot(diff(p(t,9.8,32),t),t,0,7,figsize=(4,3), axes_labels=(['Time seconds','Height meters']),gridlines=True)
This result shows that the first derivative of our function (the velocity) represents a linear change from +32 (the initial value), through zero, and into negative velocities (meaning the ball is falling back toward the ground). But finding a numerical root is not the simplest or necessarily the best way to locate the top of the ball's flight. Some might even describe it as crude. Here's another way:solve(diff(p(t,9.8,32),t) == 0,t)[t == (160/49)]
Expressed in words, this says, "for the statement p'(t,9.8,32) = 0, what does t equal?" And notice my use of the conventional derivative notation "p'()" to signify the first derivative (which I would love to use in Sage but cannot). Sage's "solve" function has provided a [list] with one element, which we can convert into a floating point number like this:N(solve(diff(p(t,9.8,32) == 0,t),t)[0].rhs())3.26530612244898
This isn't how computer mathematics should be, but it's certainly how it is right now. This entry says, "take the first item in the list ([0]), take the right-hand-side (.rhs()), and turn it into a floating-point number (N(...)).
All right. That should set the stage for the heavy lifting ahead — problems involving air resistance, problems that look more like messy reality.
First, an important physical principle — air resistance increases as the square of velocity. If this were not the case, problems like this would be easy to solve. What this means in practice is that an object falling in air must be modeled using what is technically known as a "second-order nonlinear differential equation." Here are its terms:
Equation number Equation Meaning (11) y''(t) = -g + y'(t)2 k For any time t, the second derivative of position (acceleration) is equal to a gravitational constant -g plus a term that opposes gravitation and is proportional to the square of velocity (y'(t)2) times an empirical factor k that takes the object's cross-sectional area and surface roughness into account. (12) y'(0) = 0 At time zero, the first derivative of position (velocity) is zero (imagine a skydiver standing in the doorway of an airplane, neither ascending nor descending). (13) y(0) = h At time zero, the position is equal h, or height (the height at which the airplane is flying).
This is a difficult DE to solve — the second derivative expression not only has the first derivative as one of its terms, but that term is squared and multiplied by a constant k. As it turns out, at the time of writing Sage (version 4.1.2) cannot solve this DE. During the preparation of this article I realized that Sage's DE solver isn't up to processing this complex DE, but because 95% of this article's content can be handled by Sage, I decided to proceed.
Now for the difficult part. I have solved this DE in the past — it's part of my Calculus Tutorial on this site — but for this article I will have my readers click this expression: {y''(t) = -g + y'(t)^2 k,y'(0) = 0,y(0) = h} to get Wolfram Alpha to provide a solution (it's identical to my earlier solution).I won't pretend not to be amazed by what Wolfram Alpha can do. It's my hope that over time a synergistic process will take place — open-source programs like Sage will match some of Wolfram Alpha's more advanced abilities, and Wolfram Research (creators of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha) will begin to feel pressure from the world of open source to reduce its prices.
Wolfram Alpha provides this solution, as does my earlier work on this problem:(14)
Equation (14) is the position form of the equation — here is the velocity form, the first derivative:(15)
And here is the acceleration form, the second derivative:(16)
Testing and Comparison
Now I happen to know this solution is correct, but why should you, the reader, accept this on faith? Aren't science and mathematics meant to be endeavors powered by evidence, not faith? So I will try to prove to you that this equation correctly predicts the fall of a body in an atmosphere and represents an exact solution to the differential equation terms laid out above.
We can start by comparing this solution to other published solutions. As it turns out, there are similar forms of this equation — Wikipedia has a nearly identical version in their freefall article — but in an extensive Web search, I have found solutions that aren't obvious equivalents, including some that are simply wrong. Here is one of the wrong equations — we'll be comparing the present equations with this one during a testing phase below:
Source: http://ugrad.math.ubc.ca ... Chapter 11 Notes Equation (located under "11.3 Terminal Velocity"):(17)
This is a slightly rewritten version of the original — I removed a variable that provided an initial value for velocity, but this change doesn't affect the case of zero initial velocity. Now let's compare the two equations and see if they produce the same results:var('k') vf(t,g,k) = -(sqrt(g) * tanh(sqrt(g) * sqrt(k) * t))/sqrt(k) vubc(t,g,k) = - g/k + (g/k)*e^-(k*t) g = 9.802 # little-g tv = -53 # terminal velocity # acquire k values ubck = find_root(vubc(100,g,k)==tv,0.001,.2) vk = find_root(vf(100,g,k)==tv,0.001,.2) # plot results pf = plot(vf(t,g,vk),t,0,30) pubc = plot(vubc(t,g,ubck),t,0,30,rgbcolor='#800000') # show results show(pf+pubc,figsize=(4,3),gridlines=True)
Some explanation is in order:
- Two equations are compared here — equation (15), blue trace, and equation (17) (University of British Columbia), red trace.
- Both equations are meant to provide free-fall velocities as a function of time.
- In order to compare the equations, I needed to choose a single terminal velocity that both equations are expected to arrive at after some time. I chose a descent velocity of 53 meters/second, equal to 118.557 miles per hour, a reasonable approximation of a skydiver's velocity in free-fall.
- In order to make the two equations agree to the degree possible, I needed to compute independent k values for each equation that would produce the specified terminal velocity. As it turns out, the equations cannot be solved for k directly, and further, they do not agree on which k value to use for a given terminal velocity, so I used a root finder approach to arrive at two k values corresponding to 53 meters/second after 100 seconds.
- Applying the two k values and keeping all other conditions the same, I plotted the two equations and overlaid the results.
The two results are very different. This article's equation shows a substantially different profile than the UBC equation. One of these equations is simply wrong. How can we establish which one is wrong? We could collect more equations or we could consult an expert, but those are not particularly good approaches — for one, I have been browsing the Web and found only one other equation that addresses dynamic free-fall (but plenty that predict a final value for terminal velocity). And experts — well, my regular readers may know what I think of experts — I agree with Richard Feynman, who said "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion".
We should think of a way to compare these equations with each other and with reality. Because Wikipedia has an equation nearly identical to this one, I might conclude that they are valid on the basis of popularity, but that sounds a lot like a combination of logical fallacies (e.g. argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam and confirmation bias). So we need some other validation approach.
Numerical Modeling
In applied mathematics there is a time-honored method called "numerical modeling" that can be used to test a theoretical result. I can write a numerical model of the system being evaluated and see if the data from my model agrees with one or the other closed-form equation.
The idea is that a closed-form result (an equation that provides an immediate result for any argument) has it all over a numerical solution for more reasons that I can cover in a finite time interval, but comparison with a numerical model is often a way to detect errors in one's results. Here is my numerical model for the differential equation terms above (11,12,13):# preliminaries var('k,t,g') vf(t,g,k) = -(sqrt(g) * tanh(sqrt(g) * sqrt(k) * t))/sqrt(k) vubc(t,g,k) = - g/k + (g/k)*e^-(k*t) g = 9.802 # little-g tv = -53 # terminal velocity ubck = find_root(vubc(100,g,k)==tv,0.001,.2) vk = find_root(vf(100,g,k)==tv,0.001,.2) # begin numerical model aarray = [] varray = [] parray = [] # time multiple (increases resolution) # reduce this number if the algorithm # takes too long to run tm = 1000 dt = 1.0/tm # delta time tt = 30 # total time seconds na = 0 # acceleration integral nv = 0 # velocity integral np = 0 # position integral for n in range((tt+1)*tm): # only print results for integral seconds if(n % tm == 0): aarray += [na] varray += [nv] parray += [np] # print "t:%2d %12.5f %12.5f %12.5f" % (tt,na,nv,np) tt = n*dt na = (-g + nv^2 * vk) nv += na * dt np += nv * dt # compare numerical result to our equation and UBC equation lp = list_plot(varray,plotjoined=True,rgbcolor='yellow',linestyle='--') pf = plot(vf(t,g,vk),t,0,30,rgbcolor='#008000') pubc = plot(vubc(t,g,ubck),t,0,30,rgbcolor='#800000') show(pf+pubc+lp,axes_labels=(['Time seconds','Velocity meters']),gridlines=True)
The green-yellow dashed line is the trace shared by equation (15) and the above numerical model's table of results (I show the numerical result as a dashed line so our equation's trace can be seen, otherwise one trace covers the other). This graph shows that the numerical model agrees very well with equation (15). Here is a printed comparison of equation (15) with the numerically derived result, using the data tables generated above:# print error percent g = 9.802 # little-g for tt in range(31): ya = varray[tt] yb = vf(tt,g,vk) ye = 0 if(tt > 0): ye = 100*(ya-yb)/ya print "t:%2d %12.5f %12.5f Error:%8.5f%%" % (tt,ya,yb,ye)t: 0 0.00000 0.00000 Error: 0.00000% t: 1 -9.69191 -9.69175 Error: 0.00166% t: 2 -18.75689 -18.75631 Error: 0.00306% t: 3 -26.72005 -26.71897 Error: 0.00401% t: 4 -33.33893 -33.33744 Error: 0.00447% t: 5 -38.59217 -38.59043 Error: 0.00451% t: 6 -42.61074 -42.60894 Error: 0.00423% t: 7 -45.59907 -45.59736 Error: 0.00376% t: 8 -47.77484 -47.77330 Error: 0.00322% t: 9 -49.33475 -49.33343 Error: 0.00267% t:10 -50.44080 -50.43971 Error: 0.00216% t:11 -51.21889 -51.21801 Error: 0.00172% t:12 -51.76324 -51.76255 Error: 0.00134% t:13 -52.14260 -52.14206 Error: 0.00104% t:14 -52.40625 -52.40583 Error: 0.00079% t:15 -52.58915 -52.58883 Error: 0.00060% t:16 -52.71586 -52.71562 Error: 0.00045% t:17 -52.80356 -52.80338 Error: 0.00034% t:18 -52.86423 -52.86410 Error: 0.00025% t:19 -52.90618 -52.90608 Error: 0.00019% t:20 -52.93517 -52.93510 Error: 0.00014% t:21 -52.95521 -52.95516 Error: 0.00010% t:22 -52.96906 -52.96902 Error: 0.00007% t:23 -52.97862 -52.97860 Error: 0.00005% t:24 -52.98523 -52.98521 Error: 0.00004% t:25 -52.98980 -52.98978 Error: 0.00003% t:26 -52.99295 -52.99294 Error: 0.00002% t:27 -52.99513 -52.99512 Error: 0.00001% t:28 -52.99664 -52.99663 Error: 0.00001% t:29 -52.99768 -52.99767 Error: 0.00001% t:30 -52.99840 -52.99839 Error: 0.00001%
The error terms decline as the number of iterations increases, but the computation time required becomes unacceptable. Typically in numerical modeling, every decimal digit improvement in accuracy requires ten times more processing time. In any case, it seems equation (15) passes this common-sense test — and the UBC equation fails.
As it turns out and after some correspondence, the UBC equation appears to be solving for a case of the Navier-Stokes equations, but this physical model isn't appropriate for a skydiver or other large body falling through a compressible medium like air. Indeed, were it not for the fact that it appears in a section entitled "The skydiver equation," I wouldn't have considered it for an example.
Interestingly, the k value that equation (15) requires to produce a 53 meter/second terminal velocity is also the value required by the numerical model. This suggests the same thing that the numerical comparison does — equation (15) is correct.
Problems in Numerical ModelsThis numerical modeling business seems terribly inefficient, and it often is, but there are many problems in physics that have no closed-form solutions and that require this sort of brute-force modeling. Examples include:
- The present problem, if gravitational field changes or air pressure changes are allowed to be factors as the problem unfolds. Obviously in a sufficiently large free-fall, both gravitation and air pressure will change.
- Any orbital system with more than two bodies (see the Three-body problem).
- The integral of e-x2, a function that lies at the heart of statistics. Click here: Wolfram Alpha: integrate e^-x^2. This is a well-known example of a function with wide application that cannot be expressed in closed form. When this quantity is required, a numerical estimate is provided by the error function (erf(x)).
- Weather prediction and general environmental modeling. These systems require numerical methods because they are extremely complex and are not representable in closed form. Before the era of supercomputers, such models were of limited value.
An example of the kinds of problems inherent in numerical modeling can be seen in the model above. Examine these two lines from the model:na = (-g + nv^2 * vk) nv += na * dt
In this bit of code, na represents the current acceleration value and nv represents the current velocity value. But to compute nv we need the current na value, but to compute na, we need the current nv value — it's a circular reference. Problems like this are common in numerical models, and in this case the obvious solution is to increase the number of iterations to try to minimize the error (by default the above model performs 1000 iterations per modeled second).
More Free-fall Results
Below are three graphs of the free-fall equation's different forms. First, it makes sense that the acceleration term should have an initial value of 9.8 meters/second, then approach zero as time passes and as air resistance begins to balance gravitation. Let's see:
Okay. As to the velocity function, it should start out as a time integral of gravitation (y'(t) = gt) but should become a constant term as air resistance builds up — and it should produce a terminal velocity of 53 meters/second. Let's see:
Also okay. The position function should initially change position in a way that reflects the ½ g t2 integral from the no-atmosphere solution, then become a linear descent as the velocity term becomes a constant:
It seems all those graphs closely resemble intuition and reality.
Time to Terminal Velocity
A commonly desired result for this problem is the time required to get to terminal velocity (TV). But this inquiry includes a misconception — the equations we're analyzing never actually get to TV, they only approach it (and this is true in reality as well). Here is a comparison between elapsed time and the proximity of TV, for a TV of 53 meters/second (the elapsed time obviously changes depending on the TV):var('t,g,k') vf(t,g,k) = -(sqrt(g) * tanh(sqrt(g) * sqrt(k) * t))/sqrt(k) g = 9.802 tv = -53 vk = find_root(vf(10000,g,k)==tv,0.001,.2) for n in range(1,11): dv = tv * (1.0-(n/100.0)) print "Within %2d%% of TV: %6.2f seconds" \ % (n,find_root(vf(t,g,vk)-dv,1,100))Within 1% of TV: 14.31 seconds Within 2% of TV: 12.42 seconds Within 3% of TV: 11.31 seconds Within 4% of TV: 10.52 seconds Within 5% of TV: 9.90 seconds Within 6% of TV: 9.40 seconds Within 7% of TV: 8.97 seconds Within 8% of TV: 8.59 seconds Within 9% of TV: 8.26 seconds Within 10% of TV: 7.96 seconds
So the answer to the time-to-TV question is that it depends on what criteria we select, but if we accept a result within 5% of the true value, then ten seconds is a reasonable estimate.
I've always thought a knowledge of differential equations is an essential prerequisite to understanding physics. It is not much of a stretch to say that to a first approximation, modern physics consists of a large set of differential equations.
Sage can solve many kinds of first-order and second-order linear differential equations and has the ability to display its results in a number of useful ways. I find myself using Sage to attack problems that were until now too difficult to express or code. But I look forward to a time when Sage will be able to process a much larger set of equations that lie outside its present comfort zone.
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