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Old 2005-11-28, 04:22 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Okay now I get it. The conditions of the question cannot be met with an aircraft. If the plane lights up its engines on this theoretical conveyor, it would EITHER remain motionless, or the conveyor could not be the exact inverse of wheel speed. At least not in this universe.
Technically, the wheels if they moved even the slightest bit, would eventually get up to infinite speed (as does the treadmill, due to the constraint).

The problem *is* poorly posed.
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