The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-25
Our PuSSle Department.
CHEST SPRINGS, Feb. 10, 1875.

CHEST SPRINGS, Feb. 10. 1875.
DEAR FKEEaAN-If you would please con-
gee that the answer to the deer problem was
l225 lbs. l also made small bunder in that
from the top OF the pole to ten feet outside of
the circle Ut twice g and 81 instead OF twice 7,
come on; as it did. However. it is but a simple
example. The true answer is found by squsr-
the line or hypothenusc. takeLtne difference
and extract the square root and you have tho
oitse Oi TIE rght-anSled triangle, from which
take 10 and you have tine radius of the circle.
In that deer problem. if man weighing 100
lever were to each other as TO g. Then 1875.
lbs on the long arm would balance 40 lbs on
| "Lorotto" was Httic mistaken about that
chalk marx on the carriagc wheel 1t described
q cyClUiH ana not p Girclo, which cycod was
times tl- diameter of the wheel, instead Of
8 ;4le times III" same. am very sorry.
ton of "Iorctto'." tin ketIie. presume I GER
sions. because solved the one which Was sent
in by mc-the same which ELECTED his sim tar
next week, as am little pressed Tor time just
now.
F. r NJ. says am net correct IN solving the
the problems which nave been sent in: and thus
afford ms an opportunity TO criticize him IL
tie. My error was but a. small one. IL consist
! ed in suhtrscting the square of tSe side OF the
! spindle hole instead of the diagonal 0f the sane.
| 1t woul In have broken either of them up to
! have lost the difference which NV error made
on his part Of the radius; yet admit the n:is-
!
| previous occasion. II goes down hard 70
! swallow mistake: don, II =
| III nuns siiits Ir-t pfoDte!n- III a cOulu
! could NOW eixht-sevcnths OF the field in a day:
/ ID couIu mo" NV 'I-si1tns III o'f, ann y can
NOV = as mucn as and 20 sInuch "a
~ -, Wcn a - ~ or the hcia' nni - can 90 zi-io
/ - ~ ~ 'siS fiittI ID 'S uiow eu oi't-
~ Iuu,t" ~ u hci toil. iilhes as i'tree mere re-
Iilue - 81, ~ OF IN" nGtu ~ ~ GAYS ~
it 20, o'-- ' @ ,,,e 90 -: me-, M. ~ lfee
st % euS h uiIi, ies 90 ~. ctlu' ob9- % ot - I',, ~
az az ~ n 'n M ', Q anu ID
1,-e ~ s 80 T1i u"tn .Ii,W III, tqual IsS
o,T,S w III III ~, i i,r "a a a,' @ - C coL ~,
g., ant -" '-io hei" ioii 'ihcs ''S '"i sc ss 'he
| ~ II T. - ~, - ~ 49,. g., -. =. =, -
1 W ~ ne.a , aotry tnhS & iore..o WhI
~, rrhia r E'u ~ 'he answer W HUNS 0iii's
I will t-y tn o,n,,in o littIr obou+ tho non In
lum to f. +. NJ. next week, but think he had
| nett.r axe a snort course IN penduIums II he
unil understand them, as 1t wonid he some
rem cf Eucid's first book without having ST I'D
iei 'ic i"teso'"s 'heoreui' aiid pronieMs-
n @ AZ r,,. "a ~ n
r,d. ~ @ or, III ,'iat moon m pronit.h @ . " YOU
| r,oon attr,ct bi,n az, A0' ui'i i"e'eao vi 'he
| ~ ii'
FFBRrAKT sl Ie-5
DEAR TRyeM4N-In In reply to r NJ wish
to remark that I did nor sav or az les 81 ala not
mean to saw thyt 10 mimi es was II4 mart of
| "a years, but OF "a hours whether or not IN so
appeared in print. | did not say so
f. F. NJ s snlution to the pendulum problem
lCds U'cRg, but his and mine differing so Uidc!u.
| | wished some one better acQuainted with the
the science Of penoiulums to decide So il has
been done by A. D. X. Trunks to him But i
onJ,rrSSd go iS ut ~ 80. @ ~, ',ii % - :
| or contents. So let him trv again. III
N " l., III ,Cr.ai'a i'o =, i ..e,.,,,i' u 49,, -,
Iorn forgot 70 IT, tha ,,t, ~, 80 vi ~ I .Io
- Snro ,.ie "a llis r'tir oai
! eSsu,nsI and tharafnre arv nu,5bar - ~ ,,,