Work sends me to Asia for one and two weeks at time. It's a good time to work on videos, except of course that my hammocking gear is thousands of miles away, and a metropolitan area makes it difficult to find appropriate filming venues.
But I gave it a whorl anyway, so you will see head shots from the nicely upholistered coach in the apartment, and lots of animation and graphics I can do on a computer. So I took on a topic I could do under these conditions ... explaining basic hammock physics ...
Experienced hangers know that shallower hang angles create more stress on the cord and webbing of the hammock suspension system. This video is offered for anyone who is interested in the fundamental physical principle that makes this true, and doesn't already know why. My intent is to be as intuitive as I can without getting bogged down in mathematical notation. Trigonometry hides in the closet until the very end when we show some computed numbers that quantify the relationship between hang angle and force on the suspension.
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