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I hope all the good little boys and girls got Santa’s presents, because his sleigh was spotted yesterday on radar moving at an alarmingly slow pace. As the radar screen here shows, the progress of Santa and his reindeer had slowed from an initial velocity of v1 to a much slower velocity of v2 over the distance, d, he traveled from his workshop. Santa’s Sleigh Tracked On Radar
Upon closer examination, the radar operator noted that the North Wind was especially powerful this year, which caused Rudolph and the gang to double their efforts to overcome its negative force.
Santa and His Reindeer Fighting The Wind
Did Santa make it in time to deliver Christmas presents? Find out next time, when we put the developing drama into the form of mathematical equations. Copyright 2015 – Philip J. O’Keefe, PE Engineering Expert Witness Blog ____________________________________ |
Tags: distance, force, velocity, work-energy theorem
