Today's Straight Dope email revisits a physics problem that circulates on the web as a trick question. It's the case of an airplane taking off on a conveyer belt runway. Very nice discussion of this here, now including the case of the continuously accelerating conveyer belt runway (very few of these in use up to now). As usual, Newton wins, with an assist from Cecil Adams.
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Cecil Is My Hero
Today's Straight Dope email revisits a physics problem that circulates on the web as a trick question. It's the case of an airplane taking off on a conveyer belt runway. Very nice discussion of this here, now including the case of the continuously accelerating conveyer belt runway (very few of these in use up to now). As usual, Newton wins, with an assist from Cecil Adams.
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