[MHml] Inclining experiment in air

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I believe it will not work. If jacks and scales react only to vertical loads (no horizontal force present), the scales will always display the same weight (half of the boat weight) regardless the height of the jacks.

If you add two (known) horizontal forces to enable the calculation, you still have problems: the scale measurement changes will not be significant bellow 5 degrees inclination (the cosins of small angles are too close to 1). Horizontal forces will compromise scales' accuracy, the boat might slide, etc.

Luiz

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> It should be possible to calculate by putting some scales under one side of the boat and jacking up the other side,  measuring the difference in weight on the scales and doing some basic triginometry
Robert


 
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