Slide Rule operations
Task: fifth degree root from x.
Author Benoit Kammerer
Scales: A, D, K, BI (reverse slide)
Reference http://perso.wanadoo.fr/benoit.kammerer/regle-a-calcul/racine5.html
Operation
- put the slide upside down;
- push the inverted slide to put 1C under your number (for example 32) on A;
- with the hairline search the SAME NUMBER on K and B (here it is 8);
- read the fifth root on D (here it is 2).
Task: radius r and height h cylinder volume
Author Gary Lazarus
Scales: R, CI, DF
Reference Message-ID: <000001bf5841$251ab8d0$3802a8c0@is1.main.ckpg.in>
Operation
- place the cursor over r on your R scale
- place on h on CI under the cursor
- above the index on C read the volume on DF
Task: diameter d and height h cylinder volume
Scales A, B, C (with c=2/sqrt(pi) mark), D
Operation
- place the cursor over d on your D scale
- place c mark on C scale under the cursor
- place the cursor over h on your B scale
- read volume from A under the cursor