Let me get this straight.
NIST is comprised of thousands of experts, but that does not matter when you don't like what they say. So, if I make a point you don't like, you say NIST has experts. If NIST says something you don't like, you ignore that and then come up with your own BS.
Got it.
Excuse me while I LOL at the absurdity of your logic and severity of denial.
Are you utterly incapable of thinking for yourself??
Do you know nothing about remedial, 12th grade calculus?
What happens EACH & EVERY TIME that one fits a "linear interpolation" to any velocity data, no matter how scattered that data might be?
Answer: one gets, exclusively from the use of a linear fit, a "constant acceleration". The constant acceleration is an inevitable consequence of using a linear fit.
Now, if the data points are right on the interpolated line, then the acceleration may well be linear. But it might also not be.
There is a condition called the Nyquist Criteria that states that you can detect no frequencies higher than about 1/6th your data sampling rate.
But if the data points are NOT on the interpolated line, then the acceleration is NOT constant. And the assertion that it is constant is:
- purely an artifact of the choice to perform a linear interpolation, and
- the result of mathematical ignorance.
- wrong.
Chandler's data points are NOT on his interpolation line.
Therefore the acceleration id NOT constant.
Since the acceleration of gravity IS a constant, the acceleration of the fall of WTC7 is NOT "equal to G".
Once again, you might want to take a more careful look at Chandler's real numbers. His linear interpolation does NOT give an acceleration of 9.81 m/sec
2, which is "G".
It does not say a = 9.88 m/sec
2, which is the numerical slope of his "best fit" line.
An accurate statement of his results says that the acceleration is 9.88 m/sec
2, with a standard deviation of 0.456 m/sec
2.
That means that there is a 68,3% probability that the acceleration is between 9.42 & 10.34 m/sec
2.
That means that there is a 95.5% probability that the acceleration is between 8.97 & 10.79 m/sec
2.
That means that there is a 99.7% probability that the acceleration is between 8.51 & 11.25 m/sec
2.
Those are accurate, defensible statements, employing a competent analysis of Chandler's own data set.
Asserting that "the building fell at G" is indefensible.
And Chandler knows it.
Even if you don't.
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PS. NIST's guys are engineers.
So am I.
NIST's engineers would agree with me 100% on this post.
NIST's engineers would not require me to provide for them the correct statements above.
Just as I don't require NIST's engineers to provide for me with those statements.
NIST's engineers & I agree on this matter.
We understand.
You don't.
Because you, as we've established, are an amateur.
You should be keeping your attitude in check & trying to learn a few rudimentary things about experimental data analysis.