Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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I have an interesting question. More like a bizarre and out of the ball park idea.
We all realize that if...
First party: 18 wheeled motor vehicle.
Second party: house fly.
first party + second party = dead second party.
How would one go about reversing this scenario? For a more baffling affect, not changing the mass of the fly. Obviously the fly would be mechanical. The force would have to exceed that of the truck, by outstanding numbers. If a bullet can crack the engine of the truck, then obviously a mechanical fly can stop it. Without being smashed to little metal bits. The question I pose is, how would you go about doing this. I am simply curious.
NO FLIES HAVE BEEN HURT IN MY EXPERIMENTS.
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This is reminiscent of a much older question where a fly lands on the deck of an ocean liner . Sorry I cannot remember the details of this.If you are thinking about an an impact between the fly and truck then the force exerted by the truck on the fly is equal in size to that exerted by the fly on the truck.One small force for truck one almighty wallop for flykind.How about this, the fly is making a beeline (sorry flyline) towards the speeding truck when the driver who has just developed an enormous phobia against flies (he was scared out of his wits after watching the film, the fly ,the previous evening)sees the coming impact panics, swerves and crashes.Result ,one wrecked truck(hopefully the driver is fine )and one nasty greasy little fly laughing his cotton socks off .There is a point to this which is that events that may at first sight seem trivial can,in fact, have enormous consequences.Look up the butterfly effect and chaos theory.
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