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Re: [ATM] .707*Radius

Richard Schwartz wrote:

>> .....  Essentially half the mirrors weight falls either side of this 
>> also, so in the past this was a popular place to support the mirror 
>> within its cell.
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> This is true only if the mirror thickness does not change with the 
> radius.
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Agreed!!!  But this never stopped the old telescope making books from 
using it as the location point for supports.

Lawrence Sayre

-- 
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as
a moral being, with his own happiness as the moral
purpose of his life, with productive achievement as
his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand (in the appendix to 'Atlas Shrugged')

 

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