Hockey trivia

[Robb]

You can if you're an engineer instead of a scientist.  Go re-read what they teach Mech E's in Heat Transfer 101: "We don't know why, but if you take the temperature difference to the 1.642 power, this happens to match some experimental data that some guy took in his garage, so that's how you design a heat exchanger..."   ::yark::

[KeithK]

[Q]Robb Wrote:

 You can if you're an engineer instead of a scientist.  Go re-read what they teach Mech E's in Heat Transfer 101: "We don't know why, but if you take the temperature difference to the 1.642 power, this happens to match some experimental data that some guy took in his garage, so that's how you design a heat exchanger..."    [/q]

Yeah, and that's why I hated that part of Heat Transfer.  It's all, "we don't a clue, so let's do a data regression".  Oh, it's 324, not 101 btw. :-P

[David Harding]

[q] "We don't know why, but if you take the temperature difference to the 1.642 power,.."[/q]

What he tried to say was that you couldn't have units in the exponent.  ::yark::   You can take care of the wierd units when you raise them to an non-integer power, as in the heat transfer equation,  with a constant that has inverse weird units.  In the exponent you have to throw in a scale factor to cancel the units.

[billhoward]

[Q]Shorts Wrote:

Based on that info, you could calculate an adjusted offensive/defensive potential, similar to either the CCHP or CHODR.  Of course, that would take a lot of computing power.[/q]

Isn't CCHP what the Russians wore on their jerseys in the 1980 Olympics?

[Will]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

Isn't CCHP what the Russians wore on their jerseys in the 1980 Olympics? [/q]

You're thinking of CCCP, which stands for Souyz Sovietskich Socialisticheskich Respublic (I guess the Ss become Cs), which is their name for USSR/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Will Wrote:

(I guess the Ss become Cs)[/q]

The Cyrilic letter which corresponds to the Roman S looks like a C.  Similarly, the Cyrrilic R looks like a P (or a Rho, if you like).

[Townie]

Good Question, Keith and the answer is that someone has. Basically it works by taking the percentage of your teams even or shorthanded goals that you are on the ice for, and subtracting the total number of the other teams goal while you are on the power play or even strength.

[Townie]

Excuse me, I meant to write total PERCENTAGE of the other teams goals.