{"id":2654,"date":"2021-07-09T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2021-07-09T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:53:44","slug":"cavendish-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/07\/09\/cavendish-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavendish Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I seem to remember that problem number 1 in the little book, &#8220;Cavendish Problems in Classical Physics&#8221;, written by Professor Brian Pippard in the late sixties or early seventies, related to a cyclist travelling along the road at a certain speed and using a certain amount of power to keep going. A crosswind of such and such develops, and the question is, &#8220;By how much must the cyclist&#8217;s power output increase to maintain the same speed&#8221;. &#8220;Cavendish problems&#8221; seems an oddly prescient title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, good luck to him today. Just one step away &#8211; so near and yet so far!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to remember that problem number 1 in the little book, &#8220;Cavendish Problems in Classical Physics&#8221;, written by Professor Brian Pippard in the late sixties or early seventies, related to a cyclist travelling along the road at a certain speed and using a certain amount of power to keep going. A crosswind of such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/07\/09\/cavendish-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cavendish Problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}