Wednesday, November 15, 2017

matches - Two Fuses Burn for 45 Minutes




You have two pieces of delay fuse. One burns for 1 hour and the other burns for 30 minutes. Without a watch, clock, or timepiece at all... can you beyond any shadow of a doubt tell me when 45 minutes has elapsed using only a lighter or a match and the two delay fuses?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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