{"id":69,"date":"2013-12-23T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:35:17","slug":"dynamic-method-weighing-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/dynamic-method-weighing-swords\/","title":{"rendered":"A dynamic method for weighing swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to my article about weighing swords.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of this article is to provide a practical way to measure the mass distribution of swords, or at least the aspects of it that have a significant effect on handling properties. These meaningful measurements should ease the comparisons between weapons when hands-on examination is impractical. The typical situations for use of such characteristics could range from on-line reviews and purchase of reproductions or martial training tools, to the study of museum pieces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/weighing\/weighing.pdf\">Full article in PDF format<\/a><br \/>\nCompanion video showing the &#8216;waggle test&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/weighing\/waggleTest.avi\">Original MPEG-4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/weighing\/waggleTest.wmv\">WMV (should work out of the box for Windows Media<br \/>\nPlayer users)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You are also welcome to discuss the article in one of these threads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myarmoury.com\/talk\/viewtopic.php?t=21670\">MyArmoury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fioredeiliberi.org\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=16332\">Schola Gladiatoria Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swordforum.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=103729\">Sword Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearma.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=24221\">The ARMA forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to my article about weighing swords. Learn a practical way to measure the mass distribution of swords, or at least the aspects of it that have a significant effect on handling properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,79,112,162],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-dynamics","tag-inertia","tag-physics-2","tag-weighing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}