Nomogram

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

by sakuraiben • 12 years ago

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sxp• 12 years ago

I'm a fan of the Project Rho page on Nomograms which has detailed examples of nomograms for spaceflight: http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/index.html

The site also had a bunch of interesting information on analog computing in the context of spaceflight:http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php

TeMPOraL• 12 years ago

This is awesome. Now I'm adding to my TODO list to figure out what kind of calculations I tend to do often (things like intrest rates), and design&print nomograms for them.

wtbob• 12 years ago

I use one for homebrewing: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/books-media/software/beer...

It's a great technique. Faster than a calculator or computer program, and satisfyingly physical too.

greenyoda• 12 years ago

The device in that picture has movable scales, so it's really a slide rule[1], not a nomogram.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

jaidev• 12 years ago

I recommend looking at the Pynomo package, which also has some great examples: http://pynomo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

jacobolus• 12 years ago

This is nice: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal...

abhgh• 12 years ago

Nomograms were one of my favorite topics during undergrad (engg)!

Nomogram

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