Pissing in the water

michelle2 wrote:i don't think the stream of urine was in the original photo; it looks unnaturally strong; it was probably added later.

a question that was sometimes asked of freshmen during a week of relatively mild ragging at the institute i attended: what is the equation of the path taken by the the urine as one pisses standing up? if you don't know, develop a theoretical or empirical model; come back to us with your findings in two days. contact the physics labs to help you make the necessary measurements. drs. khadkikar and ramanamurthy -- make a note of those names -- will help you with instrumentation and measurement techniques.

Rashmun wrote:

michelle2 wrote:i don't think the stream of urine was in the original photo; it looks unnaturally strong; it was probably added later.

a question that was sometimes asked of freshmen during a week of relatively mild ragging at the institute i attended: what is the equation of the path taken by the the urine as one pisses standing up? if you don't know, develop a theoretical or empirical model; come back to us with your findings in two days. contact the physics labs to help you make the necessary measurements. drs. khadkikar and ramanamurthy -- make a note of those names -- will help you with instrumentation and measurement techniques.

Here is another problem along those lines: suppose u are standing in a room which has a smooth floor and suppose there is no friction between your shoes and the floor. Now suppose you need to move backwards, what would you do?

Another question: suppose there are three snakes of equal length on a circle and suppose each of them has their mouth around the tail of another snake. Now suppose all three snakes start swallowing each other at the same rate, what would happen eventually? In particular, will all the snakes die or will one remain alive?

michelle2 wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

michelle2 wrote:i don't think the stream of urine was in the original photo; it looks unnaturally strong; it was probably added later.

a question that was sometimes asked of freshmen during a week of relatively mild ragging at the institute i attended: what is the equation of the path taken by the the urine as one pisses standing up? if you don't know, develop a theoretical or empirical model; come back to us with your findings in two days. contact the physics labs to help you make the necessary measurements. drs. khadkikar and ramanamurthy -- make a note of those names -- will help you with instrumentation and measurement techniques.

Here is another problem along those lines: suppose u are standing in a room which has a smooth floor and suppose there is no friction between your shoes and the floor. Now suppose you need to move backwards, what would you do?

Another question: suppose there are three snakes of equal length on a circle and suppose each of them has their mouth around the tail of another snake. Now suppose all three snakes start swallowing each other at the same rate, what would happen eventually? In particular, will all the snakes die or will one remain alive?

in the first problem, i suppose one should piss and hope that the law of conservation of momentum is true. or one could blow air from one's mouth.