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Does the people how think this is astonishing also think it is astonishing than one will not move forward when walking backwards on an Escalator?
by callesgg 13y ago
Does the people how think this is astonishing also think it is astonishing than one will not move forward when walking backwards on an Escalator?
- saurik 13y agoThis doesn't seem to be quite the same effect as the entire body of the slinky is not contracting. So, it isn't just that the bottom and top are moving together as fast as the entire slinky is falling, causing the bottom to remain stationary, but that the entire bottom of the slinky is remaining stationary (not just slowed down, but exactly stationary), in its stretched state, until the top of the slinky reaches that point. I don't think you are giving the phenomenon enough credit.
- judk 13y agoAcceleration is zero on an escalator, which is intuitively simpler.