Quixote1818
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:06 PM
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If you are in a jet traveling just under the speed of sound and you throw a tennis ball |
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toward the front of the plane so that it is traveling over the earth faster than the speed of sound even though the jet isn't. Will there be a sonic boom produced by the tennis ball?
Anyone?
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:08 PM
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The cabin is pressurized, so the ball isn't creating the pressure things that need to be generated in front and back to create the boom.
I think.
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:17 PM
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4. I was thinking that it would need to be traveling 750 mph faster than anything |
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else in the jet because sound is already traveling at almost the speed of sound inside the jet. I thought it had more to do with sound waves rather than pressure. But I am certainly no expert.
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:18 PM
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5. Considering recent events, you should've made it a shoe, not a ball. |
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Like:
If you were on Air Force One, going just under the speed of sound, and threw a shoe at Bush...
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:27 PM
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8. Thats pretty cute. Whish I had thought of that. nt |
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:10 PM
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2. As if they'd let you bring a tennis ball on a plane |
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You could put someone's EYE out!
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:10 PM
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3. Boom or no boom, the stewardesses will probably assume ... |
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... you are a terrorist, and the tennis ball is an explosive device, and you will spend the rest of the flight tied up, and be arrested upon landing.
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:23 PM
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6. If you were in an exposed plane, like a bi-plane |
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and you were going that fast,
Then the ball would not create the sonic boom, your arm would.
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:31 PM
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10. Good example. I wonder what that would do to your arm? nt |
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:25 PM
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7. no, because it is relative to you |
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you can't throw it at 750mph, can you?
do you hear the sonic booms? why?
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:30 PM
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9. Is it relative to me or relative to the the sound inside the plane? |
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It has to be traveling 750 mph faster than the sound in the plane, right?
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Sun Dec-21-08 05:48 PM
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11. No, but the Labrador Retriever in the next seat would fetch it |
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:09 PM
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...because the tennis ball isn't traveling faster than the speed of sound. It is traveling only as fast as you threw it.
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Sun Dec-21-08 06:43 PM
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14. Everything on earth is traveling at eighteen miles per second around the sun... |
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...and everything at the Equator is traveling over a thousand miles per hour.
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Sun Dec-21-08 07:04 PM
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15. No, because the air it's moving through is moving almost the speed of sound in same direction |
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You'd have to throw the ball the speed of sound relative to the airplane, which is still approx. 750 mph.
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Sun Dec-21-08 07:07 PM
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16. Is it one of those old retro yellow ones, or the newer flourescent green ones. |
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Not that it matters, but just helps with the visualization.
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Sun Dec-21-08 07:49 PM
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17. No, because I don't play tennis, I don't often fly in jet planes, and I'd rather be |
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asking every passenger if they want to get into the mile high club with me. :crazy:
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