World's Biggest Question?
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You're both dead wrong. Newton's First Law clearly states that pancakes are better than waffles.
I'm tired of pancakes and waffles. Will someone take me to Denny's? I feel like steak and eggs.
pdela wrote:
Let's stop the talk about waffles!
Outrageous! What is wrong with you?
Incorrect. Can you show me some analysis to back up your conclusion?
Oct 7, 2010
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Bur_Oak wrote:
Geez.
In the dryer, the clothes are set in motion. It starts with gravity holding them to the bottom, and friction allowing them to be set in motion once the drum begins to move. Once moving, according to Newtonian mechanics, they will continue in uniform, straight line motion unless acted upon by some force. The force in the dryer is provided by the wall of the drum changing the direction, deflecting the path of the clothes toward the center (a force 180 degrees opposite to the mythical centrifugal force) -- centrepital acceleration. (Remember that acceleration is a vector quantity, like velocity. It has two components: magnitude and direction. If magnitude remains constant, but the direction is altered, that is an acceleration.) There is nothing pushing the clothes outward, only inward! If the dryer were to magically cease to exist in an instant, the clothes would fly off in a straight line tangent to the now vanished drum (unless or until acted upun by another force, such as gravity). If centrifugal force existed, they would fly off radially.
Try it (preferably in a large open field!) with a small weight tied to a string. You could not whirl it in a circle, let go, and have it travel in a radial path. The path will always be tangential to the original orbit. Where did the centrifugal force go? The momentum is still there. You stopped the centrepital acceleration. The CF is nowhere to be found, since it never existed in the first place.
pdela wrote:
You have hijacked the wrong thread
Not.
Eebster wrote:
Wait, didn't I link to that two pages ago? Is there something I can shout when I've just ninja'd someone else, rather than just been ninja'd by someone else?
Anyway, I think the three of us are arguing from slightly different perspectives in what does and does not constitute a force and whether it "exists"...really, I think we all get the idea here, it's just that we express it differently.
Now I vote that we return to the main topic at hand, i.e. the world's biggest question: pancakes or waffles?
i think that is the big question i think that i will choose waffales beacuse you get more food from one waffle than 2 pancakes.
irockdude wrote:
i think that is the big question i think that i will choose waffales beacuse you get more food from one waffle than 2 pancakes.
But I get more pancake from one pancake than from twelve waffles.
I didn't know my question would lead to such complicated discussion 
Frozen waffles are lame. Homemade waffles require a lot more work than pancakes. A waffle iron is a pain in the ass to clean.
this conversation is pointless.