Because I care deeply about the sanity of the more geeky elements here on ARRSE, I thought you might like to try this.

A tightly fitting belt is 'worn' around the Earth's equator. If you added an extra 1 (one) metre of length to that belt, pinched it at one point, and lifted the belt up until all the slack was gone, how high above the Earth's surface would the pinched point then be?

In other words, find the value of 'h' in the diagram below:



Correct answers will earn the approbriation of their peers.

Please will you get on with tidying up the house and not wasting your time and others on this forum?

Mrs D

LOL, Busted!


Right, I'm off before I'm busted too!!!

Actually I think someone is extracting the urine! Funny though.

For what it's worth, is it 1 metre divided by pi? I'll probably end up looking stupid but worth a bash.

Originally Posted by Mrs_Doctrinus

Please will you get on with tidying up the house and not wasting your time and others on this forum?

Mrs D

:D :D

If you want real geekiness, check out this presentation:

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MSR

Originally Posted by Mrs_Doctrinus

Please will you get on with tidying up the house and not wasting your time and others on this forum?

Mrs D

Fcuk me - I've got a stalker. I guess I really have arrived on the ARRSE scene.

Right - where's Flash? He's the expert on these matters...

Hmmmm... that's actually a tricky question...

I'm pretty sure WelshBloke's answer is wrong though. He is thinking of a similar belt around the earth problem which is not 'pinched at one point' but which is raised above the ground right around the earth. In this case the height of the belt would be 1 / 2.Pi which is about 16 centimeters. Not the 1 / PI which WelshBloke said.

Have to have a think about this...

Tricam.

Gone elsewhere - This site has become over-moderated.

Can you show us a working for that?

Did you have to find a number for the radius of the earth?

Tricam