[ATM] found my calc error...parabola

[Richard]

Hi Norm,

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 12:15:15 AM, you wrote:

NP> I've looked at plop...
NP> ...so i can do them long hand for giggles....
NP> ...but i learn better by making mistakes.

Doing FEA by hand isn't learning by making mistakes, it's masochism!

Have a look at Finite Element Analysis, there's almost certainly
something on it at Wikipedia.

Later.. yes, here you are :

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

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Best regards,
  Richard in the UK