Fix a Wobbly Table (with Math)
Fix your wobbly table with just a small tweak - but why does this work? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/comments/2dvp3m...
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Suppose you sit in a beer garden. Beautiful weather. And you have ordered the beer. The beer comes. They put it on the table and then you touch the table, and the table is unstable, and the beer spread out. And you are angry. It's a four-leg table, it's completely stable. The problem is the ground on which the table stands. This is not flat. And that's why one leg is above the ground and then if you put your hands against the table, it goes down. And it's the unstability of the table. The moment solution is: we take a sheet of paper, for example, this paper which is under our beer glass, and put it under this leg. And for a while, it looks ok. But after a few minutes, we are angry again, because this paper has compressed a littl...
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Suppose you sit in a beer garden. Beautiful weather. And you have ordered the beer. The beer comes. They put it on the table and then you touch the table, and the table is unstable, and the beer spread out. And you are angry. It's a four-leg table, it's completely stable. The problem is the ground on which the table stands. This is not flat. And that's why one leg is above the ground and then if you put your hands against the table, it goes down. And it's the unstability of the table. The moment solution is: we take a sheet of paper, for example, this paper which is under our beer glass, and put it under this leg. And for a while, it looks ok. But after a few minutes, we are angry again, because this paper has compressed a littl...
