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Originally Posted by sperry
Hurray for basic intelligence!
Ya'll can argue all day long about the wording of the question, but at the end of the day, you still can't explain how any wheel/treadmill interaction can create an appreciable force that could overcome the thrust of the plane's engine and prevent it from taking off.
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Nor would anyone need to. If the way I interpreted the question is the "correct" way, the plane will take off, sure, but it will have broken the constraints of the problem while rolling down the runway. So I guess my answer is sure, the plane will take off, but the wheel speed was greater than the belt speed of the conveyor.
The question doesn't define the terms so there are two answers. I really wish the question would have stipulated how the speed is measured so that only one answer would be correct.