We analyze a solution to a variant of the Towers of Hanoi problem, in which multiple spare pegs are used to move the disks from the source to the destination peg. We also discuss the interesting relation between the number of disks and the total number of disk moves when the number of spare pegs is a function of number of disks.

A Huey Cobra helicopter was just finishing up a nighttime practice run. The pilot was working on his low hover maneuvers at the air base when he tipped his tail rotor sharply backward, snapping off his tail boom. Without the tail —which keeps a helicopter from spinning around in circles— the helicopter took off like a pinwheel, sliding down the runway doing 360’s in a brilliant shower of sparks...

The hardware and software designs need a clear, consistent and universally accepted definition of the coordinate system for the LAT. This note specifies the global LAT instrument coordinate system; the terminology, numbering, and orientation of detector planes in the TKR and CAL; and tower numbering, the local tower coordinate systems, and detector element numbering within a tower. The conventi...

Finding an optimal solution to the 4-peg version of the classic Tower of Hanoi problem has been an open problem since the 19th century, despite the existence of a presumed-optimal solution. We verify that the presumed-optimal Frame-Stewart algorithm for 4-peg Tower of Hanoi is indeed optimal, for up to 20 discs. We also develop a distributed Tower of Hanoi algorithm, and present 2D and 3D repre...

Current lidar technology is offering a promising opportunity to take a fresh look at wind turbine control. This work evaluates a flatness-based feedforward approach, that allows to calculate the control action based on trajectories of the rotor speed and tower motion using wind measurements. The trajectories are planned online considering actuator constrains to regulate the rotor speed and mini...

This paper describes a system which solves the puzzle "Instant Insanity". The puzzle consists of four multicolored cubes. The solution involves arranging the cubes in a tower so that no side of the tower reveals more than one face of a given color. Our system, which runs as eight (multitask) jobs under the PDP-10 time-sharing system, uses a TV camera to locate four objects and, having verified ...

We report on a simulation study of the performance of the North Tower (WTC-I) of the World Trade Center complex during the impact of American Airline Flight 11, on September 11, 2001. We discuss impact damage the structural core might have sustained and its possible behavior under structural and thermal loading. Our simulations indicate that the worst damage to the core structure was in stories...

The article "The Flying Elephant: Evidence for Involvement of a Third Jet in the WTC Attacks" was published in the Journal of 9/11 Studies ( http://JournalOf911Studies.com ). [1] The premise of the article is that two videos and a photograph show a jetliner "orbiting in close proximity to the towers for several minutes while the North Tower burned and the South Tower was struck." After assertin...

Neurocognitive response bias is a concern of clinical neuropsychologists, as accurate assessment is not possible if the patient being tested is not putting forth maximum effort during testing. Despite decades of research in this area, very little study has specifically examined the resilience of neuropsychological tests to incomplete effort. When college students asked to feign cognitive defici...

We present an introduction to the equivariant slice filtration. After reviewing the definitions and basic properties, we determine the sliceconnectivity of various families of naturally arising spectra. This leads to an analysis of pullbacks of slices defined on quotient groups, producing new collections of slices. Building on this, we determine the slice tower for the Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectr...