Re: ATM Portable Vacuum Pump

["Bill Kelley" <flex@commspeed.net>]

Richard- Alan Adler's flex program does that. See "gravity effect".  Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>
To: <atm@shore.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: ATM Portable Vacuum Pump


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> I am considering the design of a rather large flex mirror.  The problem I
> have is that when the telescope is pointed near the horizon, the pressure
on
> the mirror is not uniform (greater pressure at the bottom edge than at the
> top)  and the mirror becomes distorted.   Does anybody know how to
calculate
> the shape under such conditions?
>
> Richard
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vladimir Galogaza" <vladimir.galogaza@zg.tel.hr>
> To: "ATM shore" <atm@shore.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 2:00 AM
> Subject: Re: ATM Portable Vacuum Pump
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> > Great poet Goethe said:
> > " Everybody is talking about weather , but nobody is
> > doing something about it."
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