Riddle me this...
This question was asked to me by a friend a while back, there can be a logical answer and then there can be a common sense answer but which is right lets discuss.
Question: If a helicopter too off straight up from Point A, hovered in the air, in the exact same spot for 10 hours would it land in another Country or come back down to Point A?
bryane you are going to get banned if you carry on posting this everywhere
is it okey to work with regency group? coz i was hired by them. and its my first time to go in qatar.
try understanding the problem with reference to newton's first law of motion...it's simple, no need for any debates or discussions.
i donno tb....smoke have the correct answer :)
It's my opinion that you are correct Vicky
i was did not even read the tread last night..i was feeling sleepy! i hope i got it.
yanni u have to read the riddle, it says "on the same spot" i dont care if possible or not
:))
But, if the Helicopter crosses the atmosphere and goes into space yaani more than 80 kilometers above the Earth then it will watch the whole world rotating beneath it :))
and that's impossible for a helicopter.
No, the Helicopter will remain there at the Same Spot :
As The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air called the atmosphere. The atmosphere is made up of various gases that act as a protective shield for the Earth...It rotates with the Earth, the helicopter is inside the atmosphere, does not cross it and it will remain there the rotation of the Earth will not influence on it :)
It took you all night to come up with that?
as u mentioned "in the exact same spot"
i will answer tomorrow...im feeling sleepy now :(
Pilots have no OT!
testing a logic which may seem be differently viewed by different people.
WTH will the pilot of tat copter do sitting for 10Hrs above the ground ? :(
Keep starring at tat spot and get hiptonised and crash the copter ? :(
Forget that 'antique' idea. It is the mass of the earth which curves the space-time continuum. The helicopter is only forced by the curvature of space-time which pushes it down towards the center of the mass.
While Earth is Rotating with reference to an Object in Air (in this case helicopter) -- two forces act with gravitational pull of the Earth -- Centripetal & Centrifugal.
It's like a stone tied to a string or rope and then rotated by hand like a sling.
Helicopters original position on Earth will remain same for above reason.
It will land at the same spot
Alright so the answer is Same Spot. Good enough.
ok ....:(
I answered it, so no black spot on me :-(
I know how you feel, I feel the same :-(
Rizks - behave yourself :-P
Not answering this simple and ridiculous riddle is a black spot on you, Colt ! :(
on our friend's employer head! Really hard I wish!
hmmm.....or may Shutup ! :)
and if you do, Smoke will get you goldspot :-P
or maybe hot-spot :-P
G spot :-P
will land on i-spot ! :(
Same spot, you need to attain certain altitude to land in a different spot ;-)
SAME spot. Unless the chopper went out the gravitational area of the earth (which I think is impossible as of this writing). lol! I completely agree with LP and it may sound to technical but that's the ONLY logical answer!
so what is the answer? we are waiting the correct answer smoke..
check this out smoke n this wud help everyone
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae203.cfm?CFID=36814628&CFTOKEN=56e2f761dd0166e3-A22AC899-15C5-EE01-B92F5FAFFE2435A9
Lincoln, you are correct of course. I was just replying to some guys who thought they were clever by bringing up the notion that the earth revolves under a helicopter which would be 'standing still'.
Gravity always wins!
but i guess it will come back to point A..:)
It will land at the same spot
The copter will land at Taxi hotel and the Pilot will have a cup of Karak Chai with Porota and again hit the sky for 10Hrs....:(
Is the answer right ? :(
I dont want technical answers. Its simple...a helicopter goes up straight, hovers there for 10 hours and comes back down straight...will it land in the same spot or somewhere else?
Obviously the answer is not that simple giving different circumstances.
this question make sense, but i don't know
hmmm better ask some pilot....
is this a logical question ? :(
And which is the right one?
Smoke what is the logical answer? and
what is the commonsense answer?
Jabba, a helicopter can never reach earth's escape velocity of 11.4 km per second. And the center of gravity remains at the same spot. It won't move, and so won't the chopper.
Smoke did you wash that damn helicopter the day before yesterday?
If it does not move at all in respect to the earth's movement (however that would be possible), then it won't be able to land. Because the earth not only revolves around its axis, but also around the sun at 30km/s. That means that after 10 hours (in space!) the helicopter's crew would not only have run out of air and died, but also would the helicopter after ten hours be 1,080,000km away from Earth.
Well, there you are. Good morning, TB.
The air rotates along with the Earth. If it didn't there would be a constant wind of hundreds of miles per hour as Earth rotated but the air remained still. So a helicopter hovering in the air is always above the same spot on the ground.
I was wondering when LP was going to appear and solve this riddle.
The magnetic field of earth can move a small compass needle but not a large metallic object. It is too weak. If there is no wind, the helicopter will be stationary, held in place by gravity. Even the atmosphere moves with the earth. You have to go up to some 200 km to be in "empty" space. Then you could see the earth rotate below you with an approximate speed of 1.750 km/h.
come back to Point A bcos it took off from Point A.
Ok now I am talking from supposition rather than knowledge. And I don't have time to go and google this. But as far as I am aware below a certain altitude (no I don't know what it is) there is an effect (ground, magnetic whatever) that would carry a large metallic object with it. But above a certain altitude (probably inner space), an orbit can be achieved where an object, in this case a helicopter can be independent of the earth's rotation.
naa...u can reach Dubai in just 45mins. not 10Hrs.....:)
You will land in the same place, since your point of reference will be constant..
Ok so given all the conditions are favorable can we assume that for example that the a helicopter can take off in Qatar and land in say Dubai without even moving from the same spot due to the earths rotation?
Helicopter does not have fuel capacity of 10 hours. Lets suppose it does then
if you blind fold the pilot and he has to vertically takeoff and hover over the same spot for 10 hours, technically he would be landing some where else keeping in mind the wind direction, altitude.......
Wind effect would move his location. But lets say there is no wind at all either. Given adequate altitude the answer would be that he would land in a different location. In the same way that low orbit satellites circle the earth.
Neither its an Indian copter
Lets say it does..:P
Is it a Russian or American helio-copter ?
another location...
but does the copter has tat much fuel capacity to run for 10 Hrs ? :(
Ok lets assume we blind fold the pilot, all he has to do is take off vertically stay hovered in the air for 10 hours and come back down. Then will he land in another location or in the same spot that he took off?
The pilot to hover statically will either be taking his points of reference from the ground in which case no, or he will be using GPS to lock his hover in which case no. But take the pilot out of the equation along with wind etc. give enough altitude and the answer would be yes.