The Three Kingdoms of Navigation

Chapter 40 Center of Gravity

Ge Heng thought for a long time. Although he felt that what Sun Shao said was reasonable, he still couldn't figure out how to make it simpler. He looked up at Sun Shao, who was studying his ship models. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. He had to walk behind Sun Shao and arched his hand politely and said, "Sun Jun, forgive Heng for being stupid. I also want to ask one or two, how can this Huntianyi be simpler?

"Hehehe..." Sun Shao smiled very hard: "Sizhen, it's not that I don't want to say it, but I'm afraid that you can't accept it. Don't worry. With your cleverness, you will figure out the truth sooner or later. Come on, you'd better introduce these ship models to me first.

Ge Heng frowned unwillingly, but he was embarrassed to force it. Academics are also wealth these days. They understand it, but it doesn't mean that they must tell you that Sun Shao is not too much to do so, but he is a little presumptuous. He suppressed his strong curiosity and endured his surname to introduce these ship models to Sun Shao, hoping to satisfy Sun Shao and reveal a little more way to him at that time.

Sun Shao listened with relish. He touched his chin with one hand, pointed to the four-storey building boat, and said yearningly, "Can this boat go into the sea?"

"I can't." Ge Heng categorically rejected it.

"Can't?" Sun Shao was very surprised. He saw that the ship was so grand that he couldn't go into the sea.

"Sun Jun doesn't know anything." Ge Heng smiled confidently and said, "Although the building ship is tall and powerful, it can't help but wave. Once the wind is too big, the building ship is very easy to capsize. Not to mention entering the sea, even if you drive in the river, you have to avoid the wind and waves. Once the wind and waves are too high, you have to enter the port to avoid it. Speaking of which, in addition to its majesty, the building ship is actually not as useful as an ordinary fighting ship. It can only be used as a handsome ship.

"Is there such a thing?" Sun Shao took a breath of cold air. He turned his eyes and remembered what Dunwu said when he saw Taihu Lake yesterday. Is the Yangtze River in this era really much bigger than that of later generations? How awesome it is that such a big ship can be blown over. He took the model of the building ship in his hand with some curiosity, fiddled with it twice, and suddenly the light flashed.

"I know."

"What does Sun Jun know?" Ge Heng asked puzzledly.

"I know why the building ship is easy to capsize." Sun Shao said mysteriously.

"Why?" Ge Heng opened his eyes wide and asked. Sun Shao was so amazing that he not only made a new wine. He just said that his Hun Tianyi was too complicated, but now he actually knows why the building ship is easy to overturn, which makes him a little overwhelmed and unnaturally hold his breath.

"Do you know the center of gravity?"

"The center of gravity?" Ge Heng stared at Sun Shao blankly: "What is the center of gravity?"

"Uh-" Sun Shao rolled his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said, "Do you know the tumbler?"

"I know, it's a child's toy."

"Well, why doesn't the tumbler fall down?"

"Isn't this simple?" Ge Heng sneered: "The bottom of the tumbler will be loaded with iron or lead, and its weight is below..."

In the middle of Ge Heng's speech, he suddenly stopped talking. He stretched out his finger, pointed to Sun Shao, and pointed to the model of the building ship, and stammered, "Sun Jun said that the building ship is easy to overturn because... the bottom is too light and the top is too heavy?"

"Although it doesn't hit, it's not far away." Sun Shao held the bow of the boat in one hand and picked up the boat. The boat shook twice in the air and slowly stood still, because the upper part was relatively heavy, and the bottom of the boat turned to the sky. Sun Shao drew a vertical line from the bow and said, "The center of gravity is on this line. The center of gravity of your ship is probably in the second room, which is an unstable structure. In addition, if the building ship is large, it will be seriously affected by the wind. Of course, it is easy to overturn.

He put down the boat, picked up two rectangular pieces of wood of similar size from the case, one flat and the other stood up, and then said to Ge Heng, "Sizhen, you see, these two pieces of wood are very close in size and weight, but if you blow with the wind of the same size, which one do you think is easier to pour?"

"Of course that's this one." Ge Heng pointed to the erect one without thinking.

"That's it." Sun Shao picked up the pen next to him and drew a dot in the center of the two pieces of wood: "This is the center of gravity, flat, the center of gravity is low, vertical, the center of gravity is high, the higher the center of gravity, the more unstable it is, and the lower the center of gravity is, the less likely it is to overturn."

"Oh, I see." Ge Heng suddenly sighed: "Lao Ziyun, humble is higher than high, weak is stronger than strong, and the upper is as good as water. The water is good at going down, so it is not indisputable from the bottom, so you can't compete with it..."

Sun Shao rolled his eyes, your grandma's, say the center of gravity, is it necessary for you to get involved with me? This is common sense, and there is no need to make it so complicated. He slandered here, but Ge Heng didn't care about looking at him. Instead, he ecstatically circled around the room, muttering in his mouth, sometimes the classics of sages, and sometimes vaguely talking to himself.

It's crazy. Sun Shao looked at Ge Heng helplessly. While he was not paying attention, he quickly picked up the model of a boat and put it in his sleeve, and then seriously went out of the door. The sun outside the house was very dazzling, which made Sun Shao, who had just come out of the dark inner room very uncomfortable. He raised his sleeve to block the sun, and it was just right for Dunwu. Seeing the model of the boat he hid in his sleeve, he was shocked and pointed to his sleeve and shouted, "Young master..."

"Shut up." Sun Shao looked at the inner room with a guilty heart, lowered his voice, and stared at Dunwu fiercely. As soon as Dunwu saw it, he understood it and pointed to Sun Shao. The thief smiled.

"Grandma, I told him so many truths. There's nothing wrong with a boat." Sun Shaoli said confidently.

"And--" Dunwu and Shuai Zeng in the same lengthened voice and turned around.

"Carizi, dare to be disrespectful to me." Sun Shao couldn't hang up on his face. He raised his legs and printed a big footprint on Dunwu and Shuai Zeng's back. He kicked them forward and almost fell on Ge Xuan. Only then did Sun Shao think of the old fairy and quickly shouted, "How do you put him on the ground? It's cold. What should I do if it's freezing?

"Isn't he a fairy? Is he still afraid of freezing?" Shuai Zeng curled his lips.

"Bullshit!" Sun Shao stared. I still want to keep him useful. It's not a big loss if you freeze to death. Hurry up and carry him to the house**.

"Ah." When Dunwu saw that he was angry, they didn't dare to talk back. They honestly carried Ge Xuan, who was soft into a puddle of mud, into the house. Sun Shao sat in the hall, touched the model in his sleeve, and was secretly complacent. Ge Heng suddenly rushed out of the inner room, grabbed his sleeve, and shouted in surprise and joy, "Sun Jun, Sun Jun, I understand, I understand."

"What do you understand?" Sun Shao, who was a guilty thief, shook off Ge Heng's hand, turned his head to look at him, and pretended to curl his lips calmly.

"I know how to keep the ship from overturning." Ge Heng said loudly with dancing.

"Uh--"

Ge Heng didn't talk nonsense with Sun Shao. He rushed into the room and was busy for a while. He ran out with the model of the building boat, pulled Sun Shao and rushed to the courtyard. There is a pool in the courtyard, and there is a well next to it. Ge Heng stuffed the building boat model into Sun Shao's hand, and then excitedly shook the wheel, hit more than a dozen buckets of water one after another, filled the pool, and then carefully put the building boat model into the water, and then jumped into the pool, jumping and jumping in the pool, stirring up one after another. A burst of splashes.

The model of the building boat swayed in the water, but it never turned over.

Looking at Ge Heng, who was breathless and looked like crazy, Sun Shao sighed to himself that his grandmother's, this man was so smart that he could see through it at all. The more so, the more you can't let him go, and you have to seduce him anyway.

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