Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

A Plane On A Conveyor Belt

I came across this interesting if nerdy physics thought experiment… 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 [...]

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