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Slightly related: wind powered car that goes faster than the wind https://phys.org/news/2010-06-wind-powered-car-faster.html https://phys.org/news/2010-06-wind
by yread 6y ago
Slightly related: wind powered car that goes faster than the wind
https://phys.org/news/2010-06-wind-powered-car-faster.html https://phys.org/news/2010-06-wind-powered-car-faster.html
- comboy 6y agoThis is so counter-intuitive. I couldn't wrap my head around this and wikipedia article was more helpful to me than the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht) Thanks for the link.
- Metacelsus 6y agoI remember this was on a Physics Olympiad question! (And I got it wrong . . .)