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Equations of wall-motion   (+3)  [vote for, against]
Sleep Tight

Hours of sleepless nights with a tautochrone curve or isochrone wallpapered bedroom,insomniacal determination in order to fall asleep via the results of the tautochrone problem, via wallpaper.
-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011

Wikipedia: Tautochrone curve http://en.wikipedia...i/Tautochrone_curve
No matter where you start, you always reach the bottom at the same time. [jutta, Jul 29 2011]

Details?

I was hoping for a bed and a tautochrone and frictionless floor myself, sliding you to the bottom in 8 hours, no matter where you start. Maybe your bedpost strikes a bell upon arrival?
-- jutta, Jul 29 2011


A Newton's cradle tautochrone bell?
-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011


I think the frictionless floor might prove difficult to implement, [jutta].
-- pocmloc, Jul 29 2011


Depends on the descent angle; many Newtonian fluids exhibit extremely low limiting resistances, certainly not enough to significantly affect the isochronous trajectory.

We will award a bun for an innovative idea.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011


I read the Wiki link, and I still do not understand. Please educate this member of the Great Unwashed.
-- Alterother, Jul 29 2011


Yes but for an 8 hour descent, fitted into a bedroom-sized space?
-- pocmloc, Jul 29 2011


[bigsleep] It's equation wallpaper.
-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011


Yes, Jim, but not as we know it ....
-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011


[bigsleep], I get that part, but I, too, fail to see the function of applying it to my bedroom walls.
-- Alterother, Jul 29 2011


I'd never heard of the tautochrone curve before. I'm glad I saw this early enough in the day to get it figured out before bedtime, 'cause it *would* have kept me awake.
-- lurch, Jul 29 2011


Instead of which, you'll now just have bizarre and disturbing dreams.

Seems like a fair trade.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 29 2011


//Newton's cradle tautochrone bell// You gonna half-bake that, [skinflaps]?
-- lurch, Jul 29 2011


"Ding dong" Leslie phillips, no less.
-- skinflaps, Jul 29 2011


// Equation wallpaper //

ie. my kid's bedroom idea. No, seriously.
-- RayfordSteele, Jul 31 2011



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