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Job expansion can help quickly lower America's national debt.
America is in a world of hurt. For many Americans, regardless of social standing, ethnicity or religious background, the economy continues to have an adverse impact on the way that they live. Right now, the president and Congress are wrangling on how best to tackle the national debt, a problem that must be handled if the republic is to survive.
Whether you consider yourself to be a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent or are simply politically unaffiliated, you probably understand that the stakes are high. If you are a Christian, you may see a spiritual component being played out right now, but that component isn't simply stubbornness, rather it includes greed.
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Few people like to be told that they are greedy and this commentary is not about attacking individuals although an individual as well as corporate response is needed. I believe that one solution to America's woes is for some well placed people to voluntarily give of themselves so that their fellow Americans can have a job.
Specifically, my proposal is that all 500 of America's Fortune or Standard & Poor 500 executives agree to a permanent salary reduction of $1 million each to create 10 jobs a piece. These positions, including all benefits and taxes, would be valued at $100,000 each, creating a total of 5,000 new jobs immediately.
Lest you think that I'm asking CEOs to give up a lot, I can tell that they won't be. According to the AFL-CIO, its 2011 Executive PayWatch survey, indicates that the top 500 Standard & Poors executives earn annual compensation totaling $11,358,445. That amount includes base pay, bonuses, stock options and other forms of compensation. Reduce that amount, voluntarily, by $1 million and these executives still will be able to maintain their lifestyles.
They'll also allow 10 Americans to find jobs; perhaps within their own companies.
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Creating 5,000 new jobs doesn't sound like much, but it can have a ripple effect. It could also mean that some executives would feel led to give up $2 million, $5 million or more and encourage company bosses who are well compensated in smaller companies to do likewise. Or at least enough to create one or more new jobs including lower paying opportunities.
By creating new jobs, these positions will help create additional jobs. People who are employed are more likely to spend, buying new cars, homes, sending their children to private school, taking vacation, making charitable donations and more. Moreover, working Americans pay taxes, they don't need unemployment and welfare, and these funds can begin to take a stab at our national debt. Importantly, our states and the federal government must curtail spending, otherwise this job creation plan will fizzle.
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This posting may seem odd given that WordJourney is all about the things of God and in honoring Him. But, what better way to honor God than for people to start thinking about others instead of themselves? No, you can't buy salvation, but you can win God's favor by helping others.
As for Washington, D.C. politics, the following verse can be kept in mind as we petition God as the debt talks continue. President Barack H. Obama comes to mind, but so do all members of Congress, the president's cabinet, U.S. Supreme Court justices and all others who are in a position to impact this country and its people.
The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes. (Proverbs 21:1)
Lastly, I'm not calling on the federal government to tax people to bring about change as that will only further polarize people. By voluntarily giving of themselves, the people with the resources to make a difference can, effectively demonstrating that Americans are looking out for either other, not just themselves. In doing so, God is honored and people see that they matter and are not simply pawns in an immense political struggle.
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Dr. Kota Harinarayana was born in Berhampur, Orissa, in 1943 and graduated from BHU in Mechanical Engineering, post-graduate in Aero Engineering at IISc, Bangalore. He did his Ph.D. at IIT Bombay and also he is holding a Bachelor's degree in Law.
He started his career in 1967 at HAL. He moved to DRDO HQ in 1970 till 1982 and held various positions. He rejoined HAL in 1982 as Chief Designer in Nasik Division. He was deputed to DRDO in 1985 and assumed charge as Director, ADE, Bangalore. He was appointed as LCA Programme Director in December 1985 and he was concurrently holding the post of Director, ADE till June 1986. During 1995 he was elevated as Distinguished Scientist by DRDO. As Programme Director and Chief Designer of Light Combat Aircraft, he successfully directed the project leading to flight testing and clearance for limited series production. Thanks to his efforts, India succeeded in developing a state-of-art, high technology fighter aircraft of world class.
He is the Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India (former President of the Society),National academy of sciences and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He received distinguished alumnus award from Indian Institute of Science  and from IIT Bombay. He was awarded National Aeronautics Prize and FIE Foundation Award in 1996. He received SBI-Pragna Puraskar in 2001. He received the Dr. Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2001. He received the DRDO Technology Leadership Award for 2001. He was honoured with Padma Shri by Government of India in 2002. He received Gujar Mal Modi Science foundation award for the year 2006.Indian National Academy of Engineering conferred up on him,the life time contribution award in engineering, for the year 2006. He was awarded Shri Om Prakash Bhasin award for Science & Technology for the year 2007 in the field of engineering  including Energy & Aerospace. He received DRDO life time achievement award in 2008.
 He was formerly Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad till 15 July, 2005. He is Chairman,Research council,Centre for wind energy technology,Chennai, Distinguished Guest Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Bombay. Indian Technical coordinator  for India-Trento/Italy S&T program,  Director, MIDHANI, Min of Defence. He is at present the Raja Ramanna Fellow at National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore  spearheading the development of regional civil aircraft in India.


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A previous article, Tips for deploying Rational Insight 1.0 in a large enterprise, covered some of the benefits of deploying IBM® Rational® Insight v22.214.171.124 components across a three-tier architecture.
This article expands on that article to include a web tier to handle static content. It also updates the discussion for users who want to deploy Rational Insight Version 1.1.
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Figure 1 outlines the deployment of Rational Insight 1.1 that you will follow in the example in this article.
Figure 1. Enterprise-level Rational Insight deployment topology
There are a couple of important items to remember:
- Each of the machines in this architecture uses a 64-bit operating system; however, Rational Insight Version 1.1 runs in 32-bit mode only. You will need to install 32-bit versions of all of the prerequisites for Rational Insight (for example, IBM® DB2® database and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server).
- The report server requires a permanent license, which is installed into and accessed from the IBM Rational License Key Server Version 8.1.1 (or later). You can install the Rational License Key server on a machine that is remote from the Rational Insight servers shown in Figure 1. We will not cover how to install and use the licenses required by Rational Insight.
Before you start
To perform the steps in this article to achieve the target deployment topology shown in Figure 1 you will need:
- Three physical workstations to create your enterprise deployment of Rational Insight
- Installation media for:
- Rational Insight 1.1
- DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.7
- DB2 Data Server Client 9.7 (32-bit)
- IBM HTTP Server 8.0 (32-bit), bundled with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0
- WebSphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server 8.0
- Both the ETL (extract, transform, and load) server and report server require the DB2 Data Server client
- The Rational Insight report server requires an installation of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 or 7.0 on the same physical machine. You have several options for how to install the Rational Insight report server with the WebSphere Application Server:
- Have Rational Insight install WebSphere Application Server along with the Rational Insight report server component.
- Install the Rational Insight report server in an existing WebSphere Application Server installation.
- Indicate that you want to deploy the Rational Insight report server to WebSphere Application Server yourself, manually.
In this article, you will select the first option, and let Rational Insight install WebSphere Application Server 7.0 and deploy the Rational Insight report server to WebSphere.
In carrying out the steps in this article, assume that you have root user access for Linux or UNIX and Administrator user privileges for Microsoft Windows.
Install the Rational Insight data server
In this example, you are installing the data server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Edition 5.6, using the root user.
- From the disk1 folder, run:
./launchpad.sh (for Linux or UNIX)
launchpad.exe (for Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS)
launchpad64.exe (for a Windows 64-bit OS)
For our Rational Insight data server hosted on Red Hat Linux 5.6 to run ./launchpad.sh, it was necessary to add the following to the /root/.bash_profile file:
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
- In the Launchpad window, click Install IBM Rational Insight.
- After the IBM Installation Manager launches, select IBM Rational Insight 1.1. If a full version of Installation Manager is not present on your machine, IBM you will see Installation Manger 1.5.0 listed and selected for installation.
- Click Next.
- Close running programs, disable or shut down any running or active antivirus software, and click Next.
- Select the I accept the terms in the license agreements radio button, and click Next.
- Either leave or change the default for the Shared Resources Directory value to a location that you prefer, and click Next.
- Leave or change the default for the Rational Insight Installation Directory value to a location that you prefer, and click Next.
- Select check boxes for any additional language translations that you need, and click Next.
- On the Select features to install page, choose all of the items under the Database Server package (only those), as shown in Figure 2, and click Next.
Figure 2. Installing the Rational Insight database server packages
So that you can validate the installation and run some of the available sample reports that Rational Insight provides, you are installing the Data Warehouse with the Sample Data component. You might also want to install it for training purposes or choose not to install it all. It will require 3 GB of space on your file system (on Linux).
- For the Common Configurations page:
- For the Installation mode drop-down menu, select Automatic: Create the databases for me.
- From the Database type drop-down menu, select DB2 9.7.
- In the "Database application location" field, enter the location of your DB2 installation. (The default location for a Linux installation of DB2 is usually /opt/ibm/db2/V9.7. For Windows, it is normally C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB.)
- Enter the DB2 administrator user ID and password. For Linux, the administrator user ID is normally db2inst1, and for Windows, it is usually DB2ADMIN.
- Click Next.
- On the Review the summary information page, click Install.
- You will receive notification that all of the packages installed successfully, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
(Optional) Inspect DB2 to ensure successful creation of the SAMPLEDW, Data Warehouse, and Content Manager databases.
Install the Rational Insight ETL server
You are installing the Rational ETL server on Windows with a user account that has Administrator privileges.
- Repeat the installation steps 1-8 from the Installing the Rational Insight data server section.
- On the "Select features to install" page, choose all of the items under the ETL Server package, as shown in Figure 3, and then click Next.
Figure 3. Installing the Rational Insight ETL server packages
Installation of the Data Manager Client package will occur due to a dependency from the ETL server packages.
- On the "Review the summary information" page, click Install.
- After you receive notification that all packages installed successfully, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
Because Rational Insight and the IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence server access DB2 through the call-level interface (CLI), you will need to create a DB2 alias for the SAMPLEDW, Data Warehouse, and Content Manager databases. You can create these aliases in at least two different ways: either through use of the
DB2 CATALOG DATABASE command or through the DB2 Configuration Assistant tool (see the Resources section in this article for links to both)
Install the Rational Insight report server
You are installing the Rational ETL server on Windows with a user account that has Administrator privileges.
- Repeat the installation steps 1-8 from the Installing the Rational Insight data server section.
- On the "Select features to install" page, choose all of the items under the main Report Server package (see Figure 4), and click Next.
Figure 4. Installing the Rational Insight report server packages
- For "Fill in the configurations for the packages" in the directory tree panel on the left, under the Common Configurations entry, you should see two entries: Common Licensing and Application Server.
- Select the Common Licensing entry.
- Here, you can enter the host name and port of one or more Rational License Key servers that will host your Rational Insight licenses. You can also leave these values empty and enter this information after the installation or at the end of your 180-day trial license, which will activate until you enter valid license server details.
- Click Next to advance to the Application Server leaf of this page:
- In the drop-down menu for choices of server installations, select WebSphere Application Server 7.0 (new installation).
- Leave the port that WebSphere will use as 9080 unless it poses a conflict.
- Check the Enable administrative security check box, and enter a user name and password to use to make any necessary future administrative changes within the WebSphere Administrative console.
- Click Next.
- On the "Review the summary information" page, click Install.
- After you receive a successful installation notification, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
- Copy the following DB2 driver files from the DB2 Data Server Client installation directory (on Windows platforms, it is typically located at C:\Program Files (x86)\ibm\SQLLIB\java:
- db2java.zip
- db2jcc.jar
- db2jcc_license_cu.jar
- db2policy.jar
- Rational Insight installation directory\cognos\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
- Rational Insight installation directory\AppServer\profiles\RationalReport\installedApps\hostnameNode01Cell\IBM Cognos.ear\p2pd.war\WEB-INF\lib
- The Rational Insight report server also requires that you repeat the post-installation step from the Installing the Rational Insight ETL server section.
- Launch the IBM Cognos Configuration utility by selecting Start > IBM Rational Insight > IBM Cognos > IBM Cognos Configuration, and enter these values (also shown in Figure 5):
- Select Data Access > Content Manager > Content Store.
- For Type, select DB2 database.
- For the database server and port number, enter the hostname and port for the DB2 server that is located on the same machine as the Rational Insight data server.
- Change the value for the "Database name" field from CM to RICM (for Rational Insight Content Manager).
- Save your changes by selecting File > Save.
- Close the IBM Cognos Configuration utility.
Figure 5. Setting the Content Store values
- Start the Rational Insight Server: Start > WebSphere > App Server v7.0 > Profiles > RationalReport > Start the Server. Wait 3-6 minutes for start-up and initialization to occur.
- Use the web-based IBM Cognos Administration tool to update the data source for the Data Warehouse to provide correct connection details for Rational Insight to reach the SAMPLEDW.
- Launch Rational Insight: Start > IBM Rational Insight > Open Rational Insight.
- On the right hand side, within the IBM Rational Insight ribbon, click the Launch arrow and follow these instructions to update the connection string to provide the correct host and port information to the DB2 server that co-exists on the same machine as your Rational Insight data server.
Set up and configure the web server tier
As part of the deployment architecture, consider a web tier to handle routing of the incoming web requests and servicing of static content. Doing so allows the Rational Report server to focus on handling requests for dynamic report content.
You will need to rebuild and redeploy Rational Insight to exclude static content and configure the web server to handle requests for static content. You will configure IBM HTTP server and the corresponding web server plug-ins for IBM WebSphere Application Server to service static content requests from Rational Insight.
Configuring the IBM HTTP Server
For the sake of brevity, assume that you have installed the IBM HTTP Server and the web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server. For your convenience, you will find both of these packages included in your installation media for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
Configure the IBM HTTP Server's configuration file to indicate:
- That you will use the IBM web server plug-in for WebSphere
- The location of the static web content and corresponding executable web scripts for the Rational Insight application
Locate the httpd.conf file (typically located under C:\Program Files\IBM\HTTPServer\conf),and add the following to the end of the file:
LoadModule was_ap22_module "WEB_SERVER_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR\bin\32bits\mod_was_ap22_http.dll" WebSpherePluginConfig "WEB_SERVER_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR\config\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml"
ScriptAlias /reporting/cgi-bin " InsightInstallDir/cognos/cgi-bin"
Alias /reporting "INSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR/cognos/webcontent"
<Directory "INSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR/cognos/webcontent"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Where WEB_SERVER_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIRis the location of your web server plug-in for WebSphere (typically C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins)and INSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR is the location of your Rational Insight installation (typically C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational Insight)
Rebuild and redeploy Rational Insight
Rational Insight needs to inform WebSphere not to service static content requests.
- Open the INSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR/cognos/webapps/p2pd/WEB-INF file, and change the fileServingEnabled attributes to false, as shown in bold:
<webappext:WebAppExtension xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:webappext="webappext.xmi" xmlns:webapplication="webapplication.xmi" xmi:id="WebAppExtension_1" fileServingEnabled="false" serveServletsByClassnameEnabled="false"> <webApp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#WebApp_1"/> <jspAttributes xmi:id="JSPAttribute_1" name="fileServingEnabled" value="false"/> <jspAttributes xmi:id="JSPAttribute_1" name="serveServletsByClassnameEnabled" value="false"/> </webappext:WebAppExtension>
Now you will rebuild and redeploy the Rational Insight reporting application:
- Back up theINSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR/cognos/p2pd.ear file.
- Open a command prompt and navigate to:
- Enter the following command:
build -Dcontext_root=reporting ear_without_webcontent
- If the Rational Insight report server (WebSphere Application Server) service is not already running, start it.
- Launch the WebSphere Application Server console and log in.
- ClickApplications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
- SelectIBM Cognos, and clickStop.
- SelectIBM Cognosagain,and clickUpdate.
- Ensure that the Replace the entire application radio button is selected, and click Browse.
- Navigate to and select theINSIGHT_INSTALL_DIR/cognos/p2pd.earfile, and clickNext.
- ClickNextto advance past the next four wizard pages.
- ClickFinish.
- ClickSaveto the save the changes to the WebSphere Application Server master configuration.
Update the web server plug-in configuration file
- In the WebSphere Application Server console, select Environment > Update global Web server plug-in configuration, and click OK.
- Copy the updated plugin-cfg.xml file from:
- Restart the report server.
- Restart the IBM HTTP Server.
Run sample reports
Your deployment of Rational Insight for the enterprise is finished.
Now you can test your distributed installation by running some of the available reports and dashboards that Rational Insight includes.
- Launch Rational Insight: Start > IBM Rational Insight > Open Rational Insight.
- Under the Public Folders tab, select Sample Report Definitions.
- Browse and run the reports under the Dashboard Reports or Data Warehouse Reports folder.
Figure 6 is the Defect Distribution Across Components report, an example of the many Rational Insight reports that you can use. You can find this report by selecting Public Folders > Sample Report Definitions > Dashboard Reports > Project Level Reports.
Figure 6. The Defect Distribution Across Components report
This article showed, step-by-step, how to install Rational Insight components across three separate workstations to allow certain functions of Rational Insight to benefit from exclusive use and specialization of hardware resources.
The author thanks Arthur Ryman for his review of this article.
- For more information, start with the Rational Insight page on developerWorks, which provides links to all related important information. For additional questions relevant to this article, you might also want to check the Enterprise-level deployment of Rational Insight user assistance.
- To learn how to create a DB2 alias, see either the CATALOG DATABASE command or the DB2 Configuration Assistant instructions.
- Visit the Rational software area on developerWorks for technical resources and best practices for Rational Software Delivery Platform products.
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We think of James Madison as a political theorist, legislative drafter, and constitutional interpreter. Recent scholarship has fought fiercely over the nature of his political thought. Unlike other important early national leaders—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson—law has been seen as largely irrelevant to Madison's intellectual biography. Madison, however, studied law and, at least in one extant manuscript, took careful notes. These notes have been missing for over a century, and their loss contributed to the sense that Madison must not have been that interested in law. Now located, these notes reveal Madison's significant grasp of law and his striking curiosity about the problem of language. Madison's interest in interpretation is certainly not news to scholars. These notes, however, help to establish that this interest predated the Constitution and that his interest in constitutional interpretation was an application of a larger interest in language. Moreover, Madison thought about the problem of legal interpretation as a student of law, never from the secure status of lawyer. Over his lifetime, he advocated a variety of institutional approaches to constitutional interpretation, and this comfort with nonjudicial interpreters, along with a peculiar ambivalence about the proper location of constitutional interpretation, may owe a great deal to his self-perception as a law student but never a lawyer.
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Post subject: Do they follow suit?
Ok so Ava was born at 37 weeks and I had strong braxton hick throughout (from about 18 weeks) I was never 100% sure of my dates but the 12 week scan dated it and there is no way they could have been 3 weeks out surely??
Anyway I am sure of my dates this time but wondered if my dates with Ava were right and she really did come 3 weeks early then what are the chances of this one coming early, I have been getting braxton hicks since 15 weeks with this one and just wondered if that is a sign she will come early..
Has anyone ever had an early baby (not preterm) and then had their second baby late? xx
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I don't think they do follow suit tbh, Oliver was only a couple of days early but Tilly was a week late.
There was a november mummy that had previous early baby's and gone overdue this time.
A baby is classed as term from 37 and 99% are born before 42wks so thats a 5wk window lol
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My sister went early with her first 4 (not by much a few days to a week) then went 10 days over with number 5
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Oh and I had no BH's (that I noticed anyway )with the first 2 and then horrible strong ones with some of the others from as early as 15-16 weeks but it didn't seem to make a difference to when they were born
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January 30th, 2013 by Dan Meyer
Here's the scrambler, a carnival ride out of my childhood:
I'm curious where my red cart will be when the ride finishes. To begin with, you might tell me a location where my red cart definitely won't end up. Ordinarily I'd ask you what information would be helpful for you to help me answer my question, but in the interest of time, I think this may help you here:
My sense is there are a number of different ways to answer my question but I'm not sure how many. Please post your thoughts in the comments and as precise a location of the red cart as possible. I'll update this in two days with the answer.
BTW. A follow-up question (or "sequel" in the three-act parlance): if you trace a path behind the red cart as it moves, what will the path eventually look like? (This is called a "locus" but I suppose it's best if we postpone formal vocabulary development until our debrief.)
2013 Feb 01. Here's the video as it runs down to the end of the ride:
And here's a killer Desmos calculator that lets you adjust all kinds of parameters on the scrambler.
Great work in the comments. Several people analyzed the periodic nature of the scrambler. Others
21 Responses to "Let's Do Some Math: Scrambler"
on 30 Jan 2013 at 4:10 pm1 Daniel
Every 3 seconds the red cart makes 1 complete rotation. In 155 second it will make 51.6 rotations. So the red cart will end up at about the 11 o'clock position still in the right quadrant where it started as the whole arm makes 31 complete rotations in that same time.
on 30 Jan 2013 at 4:13 pm2 David Price
Hi! Long time reader, first time commenter!
So, my plan of attack would start with answering the question "Is there a time in the video at which the Scrambler is in the same overall position as it will be at the end of the ride?"
I have a numerical answer but it's such a good problem I don't want to risk spoiling it for anyone if I'm correct.
As a way of checking without spoiling, I'll say that I'm assuming that the center of the ride is the origin and that the difference of the x-and y-coordinates of my answer is approximately 0.9019.
My first thought and the only one I can think is about the locus. (It's an ellipse, right?) Blame tumblr for showing me too many cool tracing gifs like
on 30 Jan 2013 at 5:08 pm4 Robert Kaplinsky
I sure hope your red cart is at the bottom when it finishes. Otherwise it's going to be a long way down.
on 30 Jan 2013 at 5:32 pm5 Philip McKelvey
The red car takes 6 seconds to make a full rotation. Our ride is 2 minutes and 35 seconds… or 155 seconds. We need to find out how many full rotations the cart will make. Therefore, 155=6x [x equalling our rotations]. After dividing both sides by 6, we see that the cart will make 25.8 rotations. After the cart makes its 25 full rotations, it will only complete .8 of a rotation more. Assuming we are looking at this as a unit circle, from the 0 degree point, our cart is going to go .8 of a rotation more in the clockwise (or negative) direction. 360 degrees times -.8 is -288 degrees. Add 360 degrees to find our reference angle and we see that our cart would be at 72 degrees on our unit circle (or about midway between 12 and 1 oclock).
on 30 Jan 2013 at 5:35 pm6 Philip McKelvey
the placement of the cart should be about the same as it is at 2:30:20 in the clip above
p.s. David – I got the same result as you… and the coordinates for location of the cart satisfy the equation I wrote for the ellipse, as well. Curious to see how you approached the problem. What a fun one!!
on 31 Jan 2013 at 7:04 am8 Tim Hartman
Great idea for a problem. I think to hook the kids you'd need an actual video from a carnival first, right? Then you could even talk about the act of abstracting only the crucial information in moving to the next two videos.
My guess on the elegant math way to do things would be a composition of two polar functions. Brute force looks like it could get you pretty far, though. It's pretty easy to trace the ellipse-like shape.
Also, what I remember being fun about the scrambler was how it felt like it sped up and slowed down while you were on it but looks like everything moving at the same speed from the outside. What an awesome calculus problem! You could graph the speed of the red car!
on 31 Jan 2013 at 7:40 am9 Dan R
The cart will be at the same position as it was at 2:30, 2:24, 2:18, 2:12, 2:06, 2:00, 1:54, 1:48, … 0:18, 0:12, 0:06, and 0:00.
It seems that the rate of speed the cart is traveling is not constant, but I'm going to have to do a little plotting to see what that is …
on 31 Jan 2013 at 7:52 am10 James McKee
I think that perhaps your Act 2 video is off: it seems like the small cart is making a rotation every 6 seconds in Act 1, but every 3 seconds in Act 2. Can someone back me up on this one?
Anyhow, I got the same answer as Phillip, cart makes app. 25.83 rotations in the time alloted.
I created a simulator in Geogebra and traced the cart, and the locus is elliptical.
on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:07 am11 a different Dave
re: James (#10)
In the Act 1 video, I believe the small cart is making its 3-second rotation relative to the "arm" of the larger wheel. I didn't fully realize/appreciate this until I saw your comment, and now it's one of the most interesting parts of the problem for me. :)
on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:17 am12 James McKee
Now I see it. I can definitely see in myself the tendency to pull things out of a moving frame of reference and see them against the larger (stationary) frame of reference. Definitely and interesting aspect to the problem! When I created the Geogebra simulator, both animations were relative to the larger, stationary background, so it seemed to me that both rotations had to have the same period (6 seconds), so that's how I viewed the problem. Thanks for the clarification!
on 31 Jan 2013 at 10:02 am13 Eileen
Do we know how long the ride is?
on 31 Jan 2013 at 12:51 pm14 l hodge
I really like this problem – lots of possible approaches and extensions.
What happens if the 4 rides on the arm rotate much faster than the main body rotates? What if the main body rotates much faster than the arm rotates? The ratio of the rotation rates provided seems to be quite unique as far as the path (locus) of the red seat goes.
If you play around with the ratio of the rates you get some very interesting paths:
I am not 100% sure that these equations model the path of the red seat.
Lots of interesting solutions here. I showed it to a few teachers here in Singapore and I was very surprised at how many people (like Rachel) predicted the locus was an ellipse. My intuition fails me there.
So I added the answer video to the main page, along with a nice Desmos calculator that lets you play around with different parameters.
on 01 Feb 2013 at 9:11 am16 Dan Pearcy
I've also just whipped up an applet using Geogebra.
on 01 Feb 2013 at 9:26 am17 Geogebra Applet for Dan Meyer's Scrambler Problem | Teaching Mathematics
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on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:56 pm18 Matt Vaudrey
Has anybody mentioned the path as a polar function yet? It brings to mind the Spirographs from when we were young.
on 04 Feb 2013 at 12:08 am19 Alec Wilson
Similar to Dan Pearcy, I've made an applet in Geogebra but to show the locus of the Scrambler seat:
Using 4 sliders and the following in the input line.
Curve[cos(2*pi*n/V) + r*cos(2*pi*n/v),sin(2*pi*n/V)+r*sin(2*pi*t/v),n,0,t]
Vectors & ensuing parametric equations made this quite…
on 07 Feb 2013 at 4:51 am20 Martin Vérot
About the problem of the overall shape obtained : This problem is quite interesting and reminds me of epicycles and the history of astronomy.
Mathematicians used a combination of two circles with their own rotation angle to obtain various shapes.
You can even obtain rectangles with this kind of device.
It allowed them for example to explain the retrograde movement of Mars.
The big idea of Kepler was to get rid of the epicycle and introduce ellipses to simplify the description of the movement with a unique and minimal description.
To conclude : composed movements can be really counterintuitive especially with quite a lot of parameters to play with (relative angle velocity and relative ratio of the two circles).
on 08 Feb 2013 at 10:34 am21 D MacKinnon
Nice post and a neat topic.
Speaking of the counterintuitive shapes that can be obtained, I was inspired to look at scrambler paths a while back:
Sorry for the unrendered latex on those old pages – I'll have to fix that at some point.