Recent content by istock1

All, A friend of mine recently posed the following riddle: You weight 198 lbs, and need to transport three iron balls that weight 1 lb each across a bridge that can only support 200 lbs. How do you do it? The proposed answer: Juggle the balls. It would seem to me that tossing a 1 lb...

Russ, Of course you are right, and I should have included that we were holding windspeed at zero. Thanks!

All, I am an avid kayaker, and recently got into an argument with another kayaking friend of mine over (what I think is) an issue of relative velocity. The question was this: A person is sitting in a kayak and that kayak is in a constant velocity current (say, 3 knots), but the kayak is...