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HAY /sci/, logic problem!

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-01 22:35

There is a giant, 10 mile long stetch of runway with a 747 on the middle of it. The runway, however, is specially designed to move, much in the same way that a treadmill will move, in the opposite direction of the plane. Secondly, the treadmill is attached to a computer which will match the acceleration of the plane exactly and constantly, in the opposite direction.

What is the result of this experiment? Does the plane ever take off?

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-03 21:31

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6) the motion of the treadmill causes the wheels on the plane to spin faster than they already were (twice as fast, in fact)
lol wut how
the conveyor belt responds to the plane's speed, not the other way around, so the conveyor belt does not cause anything to turn. Rather the wheels turn the conveyor belt.

Jet engines will not do anything extra, as the force must be translated through the wheels, which are obviously resting on the ground.

You seem to believe that the plane is somehow not able to move backwards, should it be slower than the treadmill

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