Seat Bounce. Fact or Fiction?

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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
So, are we relying on a Japanese interpreter to settle English grammer problems?
Soozie125 wrote:
Japanese Interpreter, how did you arrive at that?

Looks like perfect English to me.
Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.

Main Entry:

damp·en



transitive verb 1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden


2 : to make damp


3 : damp 1c intransitive verb 1 : to become damp 2 : to become deadened or depressed

— damp·en·er Listen to the pronunciation of dampener \-nər\ noun

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yeah but he turns the bike sideways before takeoff
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Soozie125 wrote:
Japanese Interpreter, how did you arrive at that?

Looks like perfect English to me.
Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.
Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
Because Americans are lazy retards.

Wiki? Really, Void? Dude...

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Soozie125 wrote:
Japanese Interpreter, how did you arrive at that?

Looks like perfect English to me.
Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.
Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
Because it's a common mis-spelling.

damp·en (dmpn)
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" Christian Science Monitor.
3. To soundproof.
v.intr.
To become damp.

damp·ing (dmpng)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
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Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.
Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
Nerd wrote:
Because it's a common mis-spelling. damp·en (dmpn) v.tr. 1. To make damp. 2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening...
Because it's a common mis-spelling.

damp·en (dmpn)
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" Christian Science Monitor.
3. To soundproof.
v.intr.
To become damp.

damp·ing (dmpng)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden



the heat dampened our spirits
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"The recoil mechanisms in most guns are also critically damped so that they return to their original position, after the recoil due to firing, in the least possible time."



so it is "controled" or absorbed?
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Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.
Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
SEEMEFIRST wrote:
Because Americans are lazy retards.

Wiki? Really, Void? Dude...
I'm using the exact same wiki that Nerd used to say Damping is a mechanical effect. He said "Dampening" is to make something wet but when I typed "Dampening" in to the same wiki he used it took me to the same page for the mechanical force and not to a page full of water. Look at the links. Smile
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Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
SEEMEFIRST wrote:
Because Americans are lazy retards.

Wiki? Really, Void? Dude...
Void Main wrote:
I'm using the exact same wiki that Nerd used to say Damping is a mechanical effect. He said "Dampening" is to make something wet but when...
I'm using the exact same wiki that Nerd used to say Damping is a mechanical effect. He said "Dampening" is to make something wet but when I typed "Dampening" in to the same wiki he used it took me to the same page for the mechanical force and not to a page full of water. Look at the links. Smile
Dampening has 3 meanings.

One of them is to "Deaden"

Nerd is wrong.
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damp·en (dām'pən)
v. damp·ened, damp·en·ing, damp·ens

v. tr.

To make damp.
To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" (Christian Science Monitor).
To soundproof.
v. intr.
To become damp.
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Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
Nerd wrote:
Because it's a common mis-spelling. damp·en (dmpn) v.tr. 1. To make damp. 2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening...
Because it's a common mis-spelling.

damp·en (dmpn)
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" Christian Science Monitor.
3. To soundproof.
v.intr.
To become damp.

damp·ing (dmpng)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
Soozie125 wrote:
1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden



the heat dampened our spirits
Which is not a mechanical effect. A shock is damped. A sound is dampened with foam on the wall of the recording studio.
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Nerd wrote:
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect. Dampening is getting something wet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping Damping is any effect, either...
Just google the word "damping" and you find it everywhere. That is the mechanical effect.

Dampening is getting something wet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Damping is any effect, either deliberately engendered or inherent to a system, that tends to reduce the amplitude of oscillations of an oscillatory system.
Void Main wrote:
Then why does wikipedia redirect dampening to the same page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampening
Nerd wrote:
Because it's a common mis-spelling. damp·en (dmpn) v.tr. 1. To make damp. 2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening...
Because it's a common mis-spelling.

damp·en (dmpn)
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" Christian Science Monitor.
3. To soundproof.
v.intr.
To become damp.

damp·ing (dmpng)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
But even if it's a misspelling it is a correct spelling of a word with another meaning. Why wouldn't the definition be of what the word really means?

http://www.answers.com/dampen


Dictionary: damp·en (dăm'pən) pronunciation

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v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens.

v.tr.

1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: “trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress” (Christian Science Monitor).
3. To soundproof.
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This crap is why I stopped doing this. The answer is obvious, but everyone's trying so hard just to argue SOMETHING that they don't even pay attention to it.

See ya.
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damp (dāmp)
adj. damp·er, damp·est

Slightly wet. See Synonyms at wet.
Archaic Dejected.
n.
Moisture in the air; humidity.
Foul or poisonous gas that sometimes pollutes the air in coal mines.
Lowness of spirits; depression.
A restraint or check; a discouragement.
tr.v. damped, damp·ing, damps

To make damp or moist; moisten.
To extinguish (a fire, for example) by cutting off air.
To restrain or check; discourage.
Music To slow or stop the vibrations of (the strings of a keyboard instrument) with a damper.
Physics To decrease the amplitude of (an oscillating system).
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Nerd wrote:
Because it's a common mis-spelling. damp·en (dmpn) v.tr. 1. To make damp. 2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening...
Because it's a common mis-spelling.

damp·en (dmpn)
v.tr.
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves . . . aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" Christian Science Monitor.
3. To soundproof.
v.intr.
To become damp.

damp·ing (dmpng)
n.
The capacity built into a mechanical or electrical device to prevent excessive correction and the resulting instability or oscillatory conditions.
Soozie125 wrote:
1 : to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : deaden



the heat dampened our spirits
Nerd wrote:
Which is not a mechanical effect. A shock is damped. A sound is dampened with foam on the wall of the recording studio.
Did you read the part about "Deaden"

I have been in Mechanical Design my whole career. I have seen the the derivative, dampened and dampening used many times to describe a mechanical action.
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flarider wrote:
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dude you start the argument and then you get bent because it is an argument? harvard teach you that?
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flarider wrote:
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Dampening has more than one meaning.

What's so hard to figure out?
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flarider wrote:
[img]http://www.racerxonline.com/assets/stories/13433/1581/popup/Reed-Daytona-Cox-2009-050.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.racerxonline.com/assets/stories/13433/1581/popup/Reed-Daytona-Cox-2009-051.JPG[/img] Discuss




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Heh heh, flarider started it! Smile

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I seriously can't believe people are still debating this. This is dumb.

What's next? Gonna debate whether gravity is fact or fiction?
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bullpen58 wrote:
I seriously can't believe people are still debating this. This is dumb.

What's next? Gonna debate whether gravity is fact or fiction?
We are debating the English language now, keep up.
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bullpen58 wrote:
I seriously can't believe people are still debating this. This is dumb.

What's next? Gonna debate whether gravity is fact or fiction?
Hey, what better way to pass time on a Friday night. uh, oh wait. Smile
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Go buy a trampoline. Put it over a swimming pool...see how high you bounce.
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It's DAMPED when talking mechanics. It's DAMPENED when talking Zig-Zags.

Y'all old enough to remember drum brakes? The rubber thingies in the hub are DAMPERS, not DAMPNERS I don't care what the parts guy said.
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flarider wrote:
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He already made one:

http://www.yamaboy.com/webmisc/tfsflashmovie.swf
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Soozie125 wrote:
Did you read the part about "Deaden" I have been in Mechanical Design my whole career. I have seen the the derivative, dampened and dampening used...
Did you read the part about "Deaden"

I have been in Mechanical Design my whole career. I have seen the the derivative, dampened and dampening used many times to describe a mechanical action.
So, we've gone from the Japanese trasnslator teaching us English to the engineers? Awesome...Soon we'll have community organizers telling us how to run our lives...Oh, wait...

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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
It's DAMPED when talking mechanics. It's DAMPENED when talking Zig-Zags. Y'all old enough to remember drum brakes? The rubber thingies in the hub are DAMPERS, not...
It's DAMPED when talking mechanics. It's DAMPENED when talking Zig-Zags.

Y'all old enough to remember drum brakes? The rubber thingies in the hub are DAMPERS, not DAMPNERS I don't care what the parts guy said.
Dampers are singular pal. A noun

Dampened or dampening describes an action. A verb.
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PAL? GUYB! my dignity has been impungned.
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epic thread flarider ! it brought nerd out of the twilight zone and then sent him right back . well done sir .
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I took my shock off and now I can seat bounce to the moon! I bet NASA could use my help!
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alright.. I can't help it.. I've had a drink or two.. but anyhow.. okay one.. the pogo stick CRACKED me up... then it reminded me of something..


alright.. what we have here is simple..

its called potential energy.... then kinetic energy.

alright.. a rider approaches a jump.. without enough energy to clear the jump with pure momentum.

so he drops his weight onto the shock.. in order to store "potential" energy.. and in using timing/experience... and knowledge of his speed, and the rise of the jump.. to release said energy as "kinetic" energy....

not sure my point.... but there.. does that help????

or did I miss the whole point of the topic?? heh

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