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However still made a mistake in not adjusting for the rain. I would hope he post another amendment if that is brought to his attention. Also if the PSI different is closer to 1 than 2 which some reports say it puts it even more in line of natural deflation.
He is still wrong then. he is taking the absolute pressure into effect, what a moron. You have to inclde the air pressure in the calculation. Hrd to believe he has a PHD in physics frankly.
Well, they can with a wet football and a fridge. But fair enough, it's difficult to know how to calculate. But not knowing how to calculate does not = claiming its not a factor, or ignoring it and claiming you have the answer.I don't think anyone can easily account for that.
All of this s### gives me an ice cream headache. What makes their opinions more credible than the chairperson of the Boston College school of physics who said BB was spot on?
Can you explain what you mean by including air pressure in the calculation? Link?
Aha...read my quote above yours...
This is correct however sue to the tiny mass of the air inserted into the ball this effect will be masked by the heat capacity of the solids in the bladder and ball leather.
See the post by Palm Beach Pats Fan in the Folks we have a hero here thread.
As to the massive mistake by Tyson this blog covers it.
http://www.avclub.com/article/neil-degrasse-tyson-bungles-science-deflate-gate-s-214373
It's been tough for me to read Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the Science Guy dismiss the weather conditions and the temperature differential as the primary causes of Deflate Gate. I had my doubts when it was reported the balls were 2 psi under regulation, the Colts' balls were just fine, and the balls stayed fine after reinflation at halftime.
But now it looks like (most) the balls only dropped 1 psi and they started closer to 12.5, if they were gage measured at all to begin with. We need hard numbers t0 do the math.
Argh, plenty of other scientists disagree with Tyson, we disagree with Tyson, but I'm pretty sure neither his race nor Boston's racial history has anything to do with his rejection of the Patriots explanation.He's a groundbreaking astrophysicist who brought racism to the forefront in the scientific community. Probably why he reacted so hastily and without much forethought (strange for a scientist, eh?) when Bob Kraft , Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the racist Boston area dared to venture into his scientific fiefdom.
That blog also arrives at 87F initial temperature; I was pretty crude in my work. If you just use the gas law, that is what you end up with if you take the initial pressure to be 13 psi at 75 F and the final pressure to be 11 Psi at 50F. The missing factor for Tyson and myself is real world effects of wetness, deformation etc which you can only see from experiment.
That is why I post the vid of the experiment done by the people at Head smart labs. Easiest to follow explanation I have seen.