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Kerry:
If they both weigh exactly the same and are packaged the same, wouldn't they hit the ground at exactly the same time? Didn't Sir Isaac Newton conduct experiments about this? Dottie'll know the answer to this, David. Yep, ask Dottie! :D
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Susiebell on November 09, 2007, 08:12:28 am ---Can you imagine the mess it would make if the packaging broke open ... feather's everywhere!!!
Susie ;D
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It would be a terrible mess, wouldn't it Susie? It's almost just as big of a mess as when my cat claws open one of my pillows. >:( ;)
--- Quote from: Kerry on November 09, 2007, 11:41:24 pm ---If they both weigh exactly the same and are packaged the same, wouldn't they hit the ground at exactly the same time? Didn't Sir Isaac Newton conduct experiments about this? Dottie'll know the answer to this, David. Yep, ask Dottie! :D
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Somebody asked me that question the other day, and without thinking I immediately blurted out "rocks"! Sheesh! Maybe it is a more tricky question when someone tells it to you instead of reading it. I don't really know. Anyway.....
Here's another one!
If you have a calandar which is 14 inches tall, and 14 inches wide, consisting of 12 pages (one page for each month) and you exerted 14 pounds of pressure opening each page, and you opened each page one at a time, until you opened 11 pages of the calandar, utilizing equal strength and pressure of lift for each page opened.....
A=exp(Elny-B x Ex) /n B=n x ExIny - Ex x Einy / N x Ex(2) R=n x Exiny - Ex x Einy / (sq root) N x Ex (2) (n x E(iny)(2) - (Einy)(2) x= Iny - InA / B
Then....
Whose birthday would you find on the 10th square of the 11th page inside this 14 x 14 calandar?
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,14599.0.html
:D :D :D :D :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David on November 09, 2007, 03:54:03 am ---If you dropped a ton of feathers and a ton of rocks off a cliff at the exact same time, which would hit the ground first?
All you physics people out there! Can you answer it? :D
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Isn't Gallileo supposed to have tried this experiment--though not with a ton of things?
They both weigh a ton, so I guess the acceleration due to gravity would be equal on them both, and so I would say they would hit the ground at the same time.
brokebackjack:
They'd weigh the same, so they'd fall the same assuming the packaging was identical re wind speed, resistance etc.
But if the feather package broke open what a mess! What a lightly falling mess!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: David on November 09, 2007, 11:58:02 pm ---Here's another one!
If you have a calandar which is 14 inches tall, and 14 inches wide, consisting of 12 pages (one page for each month) and you exerted 14 pounds of pressure opening each page, and you opened each page one at a time, until you opened 11 pages of the calandar, utilizing equal strength and pressure of lift for each page opened.....
A=exp(Elny-B x Ex) /n B=n x ExIny - Ex x Einy / N x Ex(2) R=n x Exiny - Ex x Einy / (sq root) N x Ex (2) (n x E(iny)(2) - (Einy)(2) x= Iny - InA / B
Then....
Whose birthday would you find on the 10th square of the 11th page inside this 14 x 14 calandar?
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,14599.0.html
:D :D :D :D :D
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:laugh: Yee-Haw! It's mine! :laugh:
Gasp, you really had me scratching my head there for a moment, David, with the "A=exp(Elny-B x Ex) /n B=n x ExIny - Ex x Einy / N x Ex(2) R=n x Exiny - Ex x Einy / (sq root) N x Ex (2) (n x E(iny)(2) - (Einy)(2) x= Iny - InA / B"
I thought you were being serious and genuinely wanted us to work out that equation! Phew, I'm so glad you were only joking! I'm a mathematical moron at the best of times! Quoting Isaac Newton's apples is as good as it gets from me! :-\ ;) :laugh:
P.S., Thank you for my lovely birthday thread, David. It's made my day! :-* :D
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