Re: Burning question - again

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

Thanks to Mark for the detransmogrification of Hasan's puzzle.

My response: it is possible to manufacture a mind-model that is
 slightly pathological in this respect.

The description goes like this:
For a slightly damp rope spliced from a thick and a thin section:
if the initial flame is in the thick rope, the radiative drying reaches
more thin rope earlier - so the combustion rate is slightly enhanced
there.

Thin end first and less radiative drying of the thick rope which is
self-shielded from the hot section.

This is a case where the physicist's model and the many flavors of
reality may collide.
Yet another warning of the dangers of mind experiments in German,
or any other tongue.

Brian W

At 12:00 PM 7/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> >
> > This "Burning Question" is really burnt!
> > What's cooking??
>
> Here is what was sent...
>
> Greetings all!
>
> I have this question in relation to a puzzle involving two non-uniform ropes:
>
> AB is a non-uniform rope.  If it takes 1 hour to burn from end A to end B
> will it take the same time
> to burn from end B to end A?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Hasan Fakhruddin
> Instructor of Physics
> The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities
> Muncie, IN 473067


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