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Subject: [Leica] why do bombs whistle?
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Sun Nov 2 04:03:14 2008
References: <754E60FA7B522D6DA1DAE716@hindolveston.reid.org> <704DE2FFEA684C77BDBA6E3F0F9A54BE@jimnichols> <20081101222146.GE26644@panix.com> <BC7DEA4A-9CD7-4459-84C2-B1F7128F77EE@charter.net> <82c9dd70811020403g216a2501j11b0023a1626df35@mail.gmail.com>

keeping the M8 for now.



On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks to all.
>
> I figured it was doppler based, but I would think the pitch would
> INCREASE as the bomb falls toward you.
> I am basing this on the increased pitch of car siren coming toward you.
> OR or as a different concept, a standing wave in an organ pipe as you
> shorten it, the pitch increases.
>
> Could the drop in pitch be related to change in air density through
> which the falling object passes?
>
> Comp sci is computer science. But in the 80's we were programming in
> LISP and Pascal..
> So that is worth 3 cents in today's market.
> My dad used to reminisce about programing by punch cards.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:39 PM, slobodan dimitrov
> <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote:
>> Ah! You must mean something like a "master of science in business".
>> An oxymoron if there ever was one.
>> s.d.
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>
>>> in grad school my comp sci professor waggishly remarked that any
>>> field of study whose name contained the word "science," was not.
>>>
>>> -rei
>>>
>>> On Nov01 16:56, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Isn't Political Science an oxymoron?
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid"
>>>> <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 4:51 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] why do bombs whistle?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> What is "comp sci"?  I am rather hostile to cutsey phrases like this:
>>>>>>  if you want to say something, say it.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Comp sci" is the universal nickname at every US university for
>>>>> Computer Science.
>>>>> Similar to "Poly Sci" for Political Science.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
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