RE: THOR Bang energy vs. streamer length measured

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Original poster: "jimmy hynes" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

It depends on how you define length. If it's the length that it can hit 
once per second, then it
does matter.

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

 > Original poster: "Denicolai, Marco" <Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi Steve,
 >
 >  > I thought about it some more- This needs a correction. Marco
 >  > did his calculations on the basis of probability per bang,
 >  > i.e. at a given set of conditions, 1 out of every 50 bangs
 >  > would result in a spark hitting the target.
 >  >
 >  > Now, even if that probability did not alter with bps, the
 >  > sparks would still appear to get longer as the bps increases,
 >  > just because there are more sparks per second, so the
 >  > probability of seeing a freakishly large one in a given time
 >  > interval is that much higher.
 >  >
 >  > Steve C.
 >
 > Sorry but it was the other way round. It was just the probability of a
 > hit that changed with the BPS. The spark length did NOT change with the
 > BPS.
 > The fact that there are more hits doesn't mean that length grows!
 > Remember that I count the number of bangs needed to score a hit. Their
 > distribution didn't change! Same number of bangs are needed to hit the
 > rod.
 >
 > It was like with playing golf. You usually get to the hole with, say,
 > about five strikes. When you fail you loose the ball into the lake
 > nearby or into the woods. Now if your skills better you just reach more
 > often the hole. But that doesn't mean your strikes are more powerful.
 >
 > Best Regards
 >
 >
 >


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Jimmy