Comparing 1000m Race Velocities: Runner 1 vs Runner 2

[rudransh verma]

You may be over-thinking this.

Isn’t this what physics is about?
We are overthinker and that’s a hurdle in solving simple problems.

 

[Steve4Physics]

Isn’t this what physics is about?
We are overthinker and that’s a hurdle in solving simple problems.

Just to clarify something (if clarification is needed)…

My post #28 (about the possibility that the tracks are in different inertial frames of reference) was supposed to be a joke! (Well, I thought it was funny.)

It was intended to be a humorous illustration of what happens when overthinking goes too far. But maybe it failed!