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MacBook Air dropped from 4 feet in an Apple Store.... SURVIVES!
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I thought Galileo solved this question a while back. A macbook air should drop at the same rate as any other Apple (or non-Apple for that matter) notebook.
[In a 4 foot drop air resistance will not be much of a factor]
momentum != velocity
momentum = mass*velocity
and F = dp/dt
where F is force and p is momention and t is time. The heavier object is always subject to more force, unless you chance the time the impact takes. There is also my (incredibly nerdy) elaboration above...
I just knew this would turn into a physics lesson.
Anyway, the next update of the MacBook Pro should include retro rockets to slow the rate of descent in the event of a drop.
Anyway, the next update of the MacBook Pro should include retro rockets to slow the rate of descent in the event of a drop.
Anyway, the next update of the MacBook Pro should include retro rockets to slow the rate of descent in the event of a drop.
Now that would be quite awesome.
If a MacBook Air, falling in a vacuum, was traveling at the speed of light, how fast would the light being emitted from the display be traveling?
It's impossible for anything to travel at the speed of light, besides photons and a few other elementary particles. However, if you were to ask if the MacBook Air were travelling, say, 99.9999% the speed of light, I could answer your question.
(BTW, everyone, it's kind of a trick question...no matter how fast the MacBook Air is traveling, the light from it will still be traveling at the speed of light in both the MacBook Air's frame of reference, and in the frame of reference of its highly confused user who's sitting on earth wondering where his $1799 laptop went.)
ok heres a riddle for ya kinda. see if you can figure it out. im pretty sure of the answer
so the theory of relativity says that if you are in a space ship you will age a lot slower than say your friends on earth. well how come your friends on earth wont age slower than you on a spaceship if we just change the point of reference????
so the theory of relativity says that if you are in a space ship you will age a lot slower than say your friends on earth. well how come your friends on earth wont age slower than you on a spaceship if we just change the point of reference????
@dukebound85:
I think the solution can be found here: Twin Paradox
I'm not "in the mood" to condense the main message of the page into one sentence...
I think the solution can be found here: Twin Paradox
I'm not "in the mood" to condense the main message of the page into one sentence...
Yes, you are right
I concede that you all are right that momentum != velocity. I appreciate the physics refresher!
I see now the errors of my ways and that the force necessary to "stop" the air as it hits the floor should be less that that required to "stop" a heavier machine.
Less force, less damage (given equally "strong" laptops that I would not necessarily know how to quantify).
Hope I have this right this time. Still it did start an interesting thread.
I concede that you all are right that momentum != velocity. I appreciate the physics refresher!
I see now the errors of my ways and that the force necessary to "stop" the air as it hits the floor should be less that that required to "stop" a heavier machine.
Less force, less damage (given equally "strong" laptops that I would not necessarily know how to quantify).
Hope I have this right this time. Still it did start an interesting thread.
I thought Galileo solved this question a while back. A macbook air should drop at the same rate as any other Apple (or non-Apple for that matter) notebook.
[In a 4 foot drop air resistance will not be much of a factor]
All objects fall at the same rate, but lighter objects always allow more air resistance, causing the air (not the MBA, but "air") to act as a force against the object. So, the MBA would go down more slowly than a MBP. Like you said, from a 4 ft drop, this isn't really going to make much of a difference. It could just be pure luck that the MBA didn't get totaled. It all depends on how it lands.
4ft drop
When they pick up the MacBook Air did anybody see it before they took it to the back.. If no how do we not know that they just put a new one out on display..
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say it wont hold up to the fall I hope it does because I own one..
When they pick up the MacBook Air did anybody see it before they took it to the back.. If no how do we not know that they just put a new one out on display..
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say it wont hold up to the fall I hope it does because I own one..
Oh no you don't! I came to mac rumors to get away from physics and simulations for awhile!
In a uniform gravitational field, potential energy is height times weight. At the end of the fall, all that potential energy gets converted in kinetic energy (Physics 101). A heavier object will need to dissipate proportionally more kinetic energy into deformation during the crash into the floor, even at exactly the same speed.
forget the physics - if you drop either from that height they're both stuffed.
if a man speaks in the forest and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
if a man speaks in the forest and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?