conveyor belt and plane answered at last ??

[securespark]

He's a no-fly and I'm a fly, so to speak.

Anyhow, here's the question:

Two beer glasses 1 metre apart are the only things that exist in a universe - how long does it take for the beer glasses to clink (i.e. touch)?

It's another silly one - two glasses are the only things in this universe, no planets, no atmosphere, no gravitational pull etc...

Well, How are the glasses kept apart?

You can't answer the question.

 

[Monkeh]

Because so far, I see what he's saying. Not that it's relevant to anything.

But that is the point it isn't meant to be relevant to anything.

Try this in the head please calculators not allowed.

1000 add 10, add 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40.

how many you got.

in real life 9/10 will say 5000.

Uhm, 4100. Even my feeble mental math abilities can cope with that.

 

[doitall]

I think we will just have to agree to disagree on this one, as no one on either side is budging!

No hard feelings!

Nothing to agree or disagree on, the conveyor cannot match the planes wheel speed, the wheels will always be going twice as fast, anything else is irrelevant,

 

[doitall]

Uhm, 4100. Even my feeble mental math abilities can cope with that.

Try it on a few people but don't write it down, you'd be surprised.

 

[securespark]

I think we will just have to agree to disagree on this one, as no one on either side is budging!

No hard feelings!

Nothing to agree or disagree on, the conveyor cannot match the planes wheel speed, the wheels will always be going twice as fast, anything else is irrelevant,

That's poppycock!

See, I'm disagreeing...

 

[Monkeh]

I think we will just have to agree to disagree on this one, as no one on either side is budging!

No hard feelings!

Nothing to agree or disagree on, the conveyor cannot match the planes wheel speed, the wheels will always be going twice as fast, anything else is irrelevant,

That's poppycock!

See, I'm disagreeing...

He's talking about the effective rotational speed of the wheels, not their forward velocity with the rest of the aircraft. If the aircraft is moving forward at 10mph, and the conveyor backwards at 10mph, the effective speed of the wheels is 20mph. If the conveyor goes faster, the wheels spin faster.

 

[securespark]

The wheel speed and plane speed are not necessarily the same. The plane will still take off!

 

[Monkeh]

The wheel speed and plane speed are not necessarily the same. The plane will still take off!

Never said it wouldn't.

 

[sooey]

Two beer glasses 1 metre apart are the only things that exist in a universe - how long does it take for the beer glasses to clink (i.e. touch)?

It's another silly one - two glasses are the only things in this universe, no planets, no atmosphere, no gravitational pull etc...

Well, How are the glasses kept apart?

The glasses will touch eventually, if the laws of science are the same in this universe of yours.
How long it would take would be irrelevant seeing as there is no one there to measure it.

 

[securespark]

The wheel speed and plane speed are not necessarily the same. The plane will still take off!

Never said it wouldn't.

I know!

DIA says there's nothing to agree or disagree on, but we are doing just that. He reckons the plane won't fly and I say it will.

As for the glasses, the problem with that conundrum is that we don't know what laws of science there are....

 

[doitall]

You tell me how you can exactly match the speed of the wheels with the conveyor belt and we'll agree on something.

 

[Norcon]

You tell me how you can exactly match the speed of the wheels with the conveyor belt and we'll agree on something.

Grease the belt and fit motors to the landing wheels.

 

[doitall]

You tell me how you can exactly match the speed of the wheels with the conveyor belt and we'll agree on something.

Grease the belt and fit motors to the landing wheels.

It hasn't taken off yet so they are take off wheels.

 

[securespark]

You tell me how you can exactly match the speed of the wheels with the conveyor belt and we'll agree on something.

They don't need to match, so we won't be able to agree on anything!

 

[GasBod]

[quote="doitall"

we know how to fly a plane thanks, and if you take the wheels off my Piper Cherokee you'll realise just how important they are.

cool,got any pics?