Recent content by Wade2

Thank you all for your efforts. I too found that example of the fence in a different website full of examples. My friend had the very same example out of her book that she tried to work. I also saw how you cannot have an answer of 50 for x since that means you have 50 on one side and the other...

This came from a friend of mine who has a math book on hand with a statement that doesn't seem to make sense. Neither of us are in school/college at the moment. This is math for the fun of it. I've thought long and hard on this and even, at one point, ran into a reference to a barn and 100...

Ah! Thank you very much for entertaining my scientific inquiry. I hope to return here with any other questions of physics as I have never had a class on the subject, but wish I had.

Thanks for some of your insight. I'm still a little overwhelmed by it all. I did find a similar thread which shows that apparently I'm not alone in the universe on wondering about these things. https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=212445 Just a few things in response which may show a...

Where there's a query, there's a forum! I'm glad I found this place. So here's my quandary. The Earth is rotating. It's orbiting the sun. Our solar system drifts through the galaxy which galaxy is drifting through the universe. Supposedly, even though I stand still, I'm moving in some strange...