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Even better than the airplane on a treadmill

Discussion in 'General' started by auminer, Nov 13, 2021.

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What is the result?

  1. Smooth ramp wins

    15.7%
  2. Curvy ramp wins

    41.4%
  3. Simultaneous

    18.6%
  4. Hookerz and blow

    24.3%
  1. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

  2. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    If it took you 4 minutes to travel the first mile, the only way for your rate of travel on the full 2 miles to average out to 30 is if you spent exactly zero time on the second mile.

    Average rate of travel is distance over time. 1 mile/4 minutes equals 15MPH, leaving no time for you to reach 30MPH over the full 2 miles since 2miles/4 minutes equals 30MPH
     
  3. mattys281-2

    mattys281-2 Well-Known Member

    no you still think about time , the question was about the average rate over some distance. Time is not a constraint in this question. The constraint is the distance of 2 miles
     
  4. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    I bet you thought the airplane wouldn't take off.

    Speed is distance over time. You can not calculate speed without using time.
     
  5. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Don't feel too bad, though. Even Albert Einstein didn't intuitively get the answer, until he did the math.
     
  6. pickled egg

    pickled egg Tell me more

    How did a shitter picker upper get so smrt in the ways of physics? ;)
     
  7. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    I studied nuclear science. I loved my classes. :crackup::crackup:
     
  8. pickled egg

    pickled egg Tell me more

    You make your living picking up what comes from dog’s asses
     
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  9. mattys281-2

    mattys281-2 Well-Known Member

    so now we’re just taking the word of some smug fuckin kraut that couldn’t even comb his own hair and married his cousin???

    doesn’t seem very Murican
     
  10. SuddenBraking

    SuddenBraking The Iron Price

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  11. mattys281-2

    mattys281-2 Well-Known Member

    im not arguing with Einstein. I concede I concede!
     
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  12. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    You'd be absolutely furious to learn who invented algebra!

    :crackup::crackup::crackup:
     
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  13. mattys281-2

    mattys281-2 Well-Known Member

    min sure I already did and just forgot. That was 25 years and at least 25,000 beers ago lol
     
  14. SGVRider

    SGVRider Well-Known Member

    Use your meta knowledge about the question. No one would make a video or ask about it if the answer were obvious. The obvious answer is the straight line, therefore the real answer must be the curvy path. No fancy Einsteins and Newtons needed.
     
  15. rd49

    rd49 Well-Known Member

    So you are referring to this guy then?
    Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is known as the "Father of algebra". He was a Persian mathematician who wrote a book named Kitab Al Muhtasar fi Hisab Al Gabr Wa I Muqabala in the Arabic language, which was later translated into English as " The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing", from which the word ALGEBRA was derived. The book provides a systematic solution for linear and quadratic equations.
     
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  16. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    :beer:
     
  17. Mechdziner714

    Mechdziner714 More Gas Less Brakes

    laden or unladen?
     
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  18. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Ben.
     
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  19. stangmx13

    stangmx13 Well-Known Member

    Units are really important. Constraints set by reality - like not having infinite speed - are even more important.
     
  20. SuddenBraking

    SuddenBraking The Iron Price

    I was thinking about this today - what's the answer if it's still the same 1 mile in 15 minutes first leg but the average speed over two miles is 40mph? What's the equivalent to "i" in terms of velocity?
     

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