The mass displaced downard by the westies displaces
more mass upward as the bridge flexes, thereby moving
the mass centrum "up"

Martin Jagersand wrote:
>
> CARB has finnally come to its senses and banned all other vehicles
> than VW Westfalia campers. In honour of this, Coyote is having
> a campout in the middle of the Golden gate bridge with 25 other
> SF area listmembers.
>
> The question question is does the 25 campers parked on the middle
> of the bridge make the mass centrum of the bridge (alone) move
> up or down?
>
> /martin
> --
> Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel
> Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel
>
> New and used parts for sale, gas and Diesel:
>
>     http://www.cs.yale.edu/~jag/vw/forsale.html
>
> Martin Jagersand                 email: jag@cs.yale.edu
> Computer Science Department             jag@cs.rochester.edu
> Yale University
>
>         Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page:
>           WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw
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