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Originally Posted by Tsar
um...who cares? go re-read the problem problem it clearly states that the speed must be the same. and i doubt paper was moving faster, and if you think that if i put a piece of paper under a skateboard and yank it as hard as i can and it will still move forward you must me smoking funny cigs.
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what I'm saying is who cares for the simple reason that this video clearly shows it will work and based upon a lot of peoples thinking, if you moved the treadmill or pulled the paper faster than the plane was moving, that should ensure that your theory is correct and the plane/object will not move forward. So try it tomorrow with your treadmill, after you try to match speeds do another trial and let the treadmill move faster than the plane/object is moving and you should yield the same results as if the speeds were matched.
and as far as this " and if you think that if i put a piece of paper under a skateboard and yank it as hard as i can and it will still move forward you must me smoking funny cigs" If its just a skateboard and no source of power, of course the skateboard will not move forward, but that is not what this "debate" is about nor the experiment in the video. We're testing it based on the thrust of the plane/object, not an object sitting still with no momentum.
~Ted