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I'm going to post the old, "Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" question. This, of all questions I have seen posted on the internet has caused the most heated of debates.
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I posted this in General because, while it doesn't have anything to do with College Football, most people don't check the Open Forum. If the mods don't want it here, that's cool too. And since ND's class is mostly wrapped up and we don't have anything else to talk about. here it is:
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A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?
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My personal opinion, and I am no physicists, but I say the plane doesn't take off b/c while the planes tires aren't meant for propollsion, they are the means to move the plane on the ground. Since the relative motion of the plane is directly counteracted by the conveyer belt's motion, the plane doesn't move relative to the "air", therefor no lift is created.
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People on both sides of the fence seem positive that their opinion is the right one. I believe the show "Mythbusters" is going to be doing this in an upcoming episode, so you would think that that would settle it.
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Anyway, your opinions??????????????????
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Also, no wacky answers like, well, they didn't tell you there was actually a rocket attached to the plane so that makes it take off. Stick to the question and don't add hypotheticals.