By drorzel
on August 21, 2013.
After a couple of very productive days where I closed my Twitter tab because it was too freakin' annoying to read, I checked in briefly Wednesday morning, and found Rhett Allain and Frank Noschese discussing this Veritasium bullet-in-block experiment:
Tom at Swans On Tea offers some analysis, and Rhett offers a video response doing out some of the math:
I basically agree with their explanations, and that should have been that, except that in his discussion Rhett mentioned that the bullet probably doesn't go as far into the spinning block, which prompted Frank to ask whether you could measure and/or calculate the difference. Which sucked me in, and rather than working on the book chapter I'd planned to do this morning, I found myself scribbling equations. Which just goes to show that Twitter is the work of the devil.