Posted on December 6th, 2011 by egiles
I’m going to create a small application to help track a balloon launch and subsequently predict the landing point shortly after burst.
Links to rocket equations:
http://my.execpc.com/~culp/rockets/rckt_eqn.html
Density of Air Calculations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_of_air
Terminal Velocity and Drag:
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/termvr.html
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/flteqs.html
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Posted on December 5th, 2011 by egiles
I had a cloud computing event during the day and headed to Star Pizza with a coworker afterwards and ate too much. I visited some colleagues from my last job, their business is really taking off.
I got home early. Grand D. said that Alden had decided to write and then wrote the word ‘Boo’ all [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2011 by egiles
Alden and Meredith had been to Sunday school and brunch that morning. Santa Claus was at brunch and they got to have fun and make crafts. When they got home, I made them brunch and they ate a ton of scrambled eggs and bacon. Then it was Meredith’s nap time.
Late Sunday afternoon, after Meredith woke [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2011 by egiles
On Saturday it was August’s birthday. Across the street they were setting up the bouncy castle while we had a late brunch. A little after 11 am, we headed across the street and Alden and Meredith both enjoyed bouncing in the bouncy castle. We then went inside and had some lunch. Alden was able to [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by egiles
Alden and Meredith went up to Brenham on Thursday night and then Grandma picked them up Friday morning. They had Santa pictures today with Grandma and they came out looking great so far. Meredith is smiling and not crying this year! It’s great she’s not scared of Santa Claus this year!
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Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by egiles
Alden this week on Wednesday said he was going to make a shopping list. He got out a piece of paper with line markings for drawing letters and asked me what I wanted to order. I said I wanted a thousand dollars, and he laughed and said “No daddy, what food do you want?” I [...]
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