Does this hypothetical world have an atmosphere?

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Mar 11, 2019
11:22:47pm

Dread Pirate Westley All-American

Does this hypothetical world have an atmosphere?

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Dread Pirate Westley

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Physics problem

Veracruz

3/11/19 11:19pm

Does this hypothetical world have an atmosphere?

Dread Pirate Westley

3/11/19 11:22pm

Frictionless atmosphere e.g. no atmosphere.

Veracruz

3/11/19 11:23pm

Your speed remains constant (once the bottle rocket fizzles out).

Blue Print

3/11/19 11:27pm

Let’s look at one aspect and see if that changes anything.

Veracruz

3/11/19 11:41pm

Yes. But if you extend your plane to a sphere

Blue Ghost

3/11/19 11:55pm

Or maybe you aren’t realizing that a smooth

Blue Ghost

3/12/19 12:06am

You aren't 8" lower after a mile; you traveled a mile in an arc. So you went

unctoothman

3/12/19 12:10am

^This. If you want to imagine the curvature of the earth as an arch, you have to accept that you are always at the apex

mvtoro

3/12/19 12:17am

Constant speed. The curvature of the planet follows an equipotential surface so

colton

3/12/19 7:36am

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