A rope hangs over a pulley. On one side a weight is tied. The weight is resting on ground when a monkey of equal weight starts climbing up the other side of the rope. Will the monkey reach the top first or the weight? Assume the rope and pulley to be lossless and the rope weightless.
There is a rectangular surface with no friction, and a puck with no friction on its bottom surface sits at a random point on this surface. This puck is now given a push in a random direction. The walls of the surface all have coefficient of restitution of 1, so the puck will bounce off the walls...
beaker with water on a weighing scale...
A weighing scale has a beaker of water on one side and a balancing
weight on the other side.
You put your finger into the water carefully without touching the beaker. Will the balance be upset?
Which side will appear heavier, if so?
What will...
water from tap...
A tap is left slightly open., and a gentle stream of water is flowing downwards from it.
Why is it that the stream becomes thinner as it gets farther away from the tap?
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Frame of reference...
Ok here's a question inspired by relativity and frames of reference.
In a funfair, there are two carousels (merry-go-rounds), each 4 meters in diameter and their centers 5 meters apart. They revolve with the same angular velocity, but in opposite directions. We have two...
4 digit number...
Consider four distinct digits.
Construct the greatest four digit number out of those digits.
Now construct the smallest number, again from those four digits.
If the difference of the two numbers consists of the same four digits as chosen originally, can you find...
I have a question... it may seem like a very basic one, but still I am not able to answer this.
"Why all satellite launch pads are located on east coast"?
I can understand why satellite neeeds to be launhed in eastward direction, but when I tried to correlate these two together, I was told...