Physics Question

[Sasha_SG]

@louis110

ok so i must admit defeat on this one…after lying down in my bed and playing with my toy planes, i failed to observe one very obvious property of the situation. the belt and the motion of the plane spin the wheels in the same direction! so the tangential velocity of the wheels is actually doubled instead of cancelling out. this is of course based on the assumption the system is TOTALLY frictionless and all rotational inertia is overcome. if the belt were moving in the same direction as the plane then my argument would be valid, but that’s just not the case here.

i still stand by my theory in that the speed of the wheels is affected by the thrust created. though the systems are independent of each other, the motion caused by thrust along the ground can be also expressed by the tangential motion of the wheels.

so adam i must apologize to you for my ignorance and hostility, and i think i deserve a big

is what you type all a joke or do you actually believe this stuff?