Miscellaneous - Papers and Miscellany


Papers

The "Push-Me Pull-You" Boat is Better Still (PDF)
Ruina, A., 1978

My first paper, on sailing upwind, is in its 27th year of revision.


Miscellany

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Random Mechanics: Unpublished semi-ideas from my friend Jim Papadopoulos and myself.
 

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Rolling and Sliding of spinning things - Euler's Disk, Jellett's egg, and Moffatt's Nature: Comments about things that go in circles on the ground.
 

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Muscle motor
 

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Annoying things at Cornell: A partial list of gripes.

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Talk on brief introduction to mechanics.

 

bullet Rant about "internal" and "external" work in biomechanics

 


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