Miles per Hour
If an electric train is going west at sixty miles an hour and the wind is blowing from north at thirty miles an hour, in which direction will the smoke from the engine blow and, at what Miles per Hour ?
Labels: logic, mathemagic, trickofmind
posted by Rajesh Lal at
11:42 PM
12 Comments:
There is no smoke from an electric train.
Electric Trains don't have smoke.
lol, if it's an electric train there will be no smoke.
What is it was an electric train on fire???!!!! :L:L:L
shove that in your pipe an smoke it lol!
but would you include the smoke coming for the electrisity generator that is in reality proving the energy to the train, because to include that smoke it would go north at 30 m/hr.
It would go south at 30 mph 'cos if there was smoke it would be broken!
Yanonmous
RE:
What is it was an electric train on fire???!!!! :L:L:L
shove that in your pipe an smoke it lol!
AND:
but would you include the smoke coming for the electrisity generator that is in reality proving the energy to the train, because to include that smoke it would go north at 30 m/hr.
The question asked:
"in which direction will the smoke from the *engine* blow" so your answers are irrelevant . Pedantic idiots.
There's no smoke it's an electric train so there's no smoke. . .
Trains of today have electric motors, to provide more range of speed - no gear shifting. But the generators burn diesel to make the electricity. The smoke that is almost invisible would blow south from the north wind.
The smoke would blow to the SOUTH at 30 m/h.(if it could blow smoke.)
actually i might solve it scientifically rather than mathematically.
according to the coriollis effect (transfer of heat through gases and liquids) and assuming the smoke is hot the smoke would travel north because it states heat from the earth travels to the poles and returns down south as cold air. its a cycle.
but mathematically would be correct too if you think of the pressure and force from the wind moving it south.
I agree with anonymous #3, the train must be on fire because an electric train does not have an engine, so there for .... it can't produce smoke. It gets it's electricity from an external source. As far as Diesel, yes there are diesel locomotives which are considered hybrids and are not classified as Electrical locomotives. Diesl engine is run by an internal combustion engine. To make a long story short, creates gas..... A recap, electrical trains have no engine, no exhaust. No exhaust, no combustion of fuels. No combustion of fuels, no Smoke.
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