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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
Wtf? The plane was moving forward...so the treadmill wasn't equal to the plane?
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It was moving backward relative to the ground at the same speed the plane was moving forward relative to the ground.
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Well duh, it's not stationary as the original question seemed to suggest,
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That was the trick in the trick question- it seems to suggest that the plane will be stationary, but doesn't actually say so.
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of course it will take off, it will just take the wheels longer to get up to speed.
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No. The wheels actually move twice as fast.