if i could run faster than the speed of light...

[Darkwood]

Sorry tel, to simplify it then, if you tilt your ice cream cone further and further then your ice cream is going to fall on the floor, we are just explaining why it doesn't float.

Don't get me started on flatearthers or flattards as I call them, I try to keep that subject within youtube where you got the deeply religious Southern and Mid states of the USA where they seem to have a vast reservoir of conspiracists and nutjobs, many of whom are looking to get confirmation the words in the holy book are true - cognitive dissonance at its best.

 

[marconi]

Yes I agree and thank you - you describe nicely the difference between apparent weight and weight/actual weight.

see: https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~jharlow/teaching/everyday06/reading02.pdf

 

[telectrix]

Yes I agree and thank you - you describe nicely the difference between apparent weight and weight/actual weight.

see: https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~jharlow/teaching/everyday06/reading02.pdf

now i partlly understand. just so awkward converting 32f/sec^ to 9.81 m/sec^ and lbs. into kellogrammes. lbs.ft, i can onderstand, but afaik, newtons are small reptiles that live in ponds, and are a protected species. .

 

[Darkwood]

The question was asked and I found this video, I got quite a few of the issues raised in my earlier post.