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Minecraft Science: Mass of the Minecraft Earth
Wyboth:
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy. on February 05, 2013, 07:59:29 pm ---I have 2 parties that helped me. Mojang and Issac Newton.
But really, this is awesome. And do items and gravel/sand/anvils fall the same? Also minecarts on slopes?
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Thanks, and I will test gravel and anvils tomorrow. Minecart kinematics is a different experiment altogether.
RuthlessTomato:
--- Quote from: Wyboth on February 05, 2013, 08:05:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy. on February 05, 2013, 07:59:29 pm ---I have 2 parties that helped me. Mojang and Issac Newton.
But really, this is awesome. And do items and gravel/sand/anvils fall the same? Also minecarts on slopes?
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Thanks, and I will test gravel and anvils tomorrow. Minecart kinematics is a different experiment altogether.
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Alright. But you could test momentum by the carts leaving tracks at different angles/speeds. I do know that carts travel farther while occupied. And maybe see if wind resistance slows down the anvil, or if weight has anything to do with it.
NotABronie:
--- Quote from: Wyboth on February 05, 2013, 08:05:52 pm ---Thanks, and I will test gravel and anvils tomorrow. Minecart kinematics is a different experiment altogether.
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No need, sand, enderdragon eggs, gravel, anvils and primed trinitrotoluene at a rate of 16 ms^-2
DJAlphaWolf:
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy on February 05, 2013, 09:09:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Wyboth on February 05, 2013, 08:05:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy. on February 05, 2013, 07:59:29 pm ---I have 2 parties that helped me. Mojang and Issac Newton.
But really, this is awesome. And do items and gravel/sand/anvils fall the same? Also minecarts on slopes?
--- End quote ---
Thanks, and I will test gravel and anvils tomorrow. Minecart kinematics is a different experiment altogether.
--- End quote ---
Alright. But you could test momentum by the carts leaving tracks at different angles/speeds. I do know that carts travel farther while occupied. And maybe see if wind resistance slows down the anvil, or if weight has anything to do with it.
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That would be because they have greater potential energy which is translated into kinetic energy when in motion.
Though what do i know? I took physics freshman year and completely forgot everything i ever learned in that class xD
Btw wyboth.
--- Quote from: Wyboth on February 05, 2013, 12:09:55 pm ---Haha, thanks. I also posted it on Minecraft Wiki. It's still there, so I take that as an accomplishment.
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Can we have a link? I can't find it by searching xD
Wyboth:
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy on February 05, 2013, 09:09:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Wyboth on February 05, 2013, 08:05:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: That Goalie Guy. on February 05, 2013, 07:59:29 pm ---I have 2 parties that helped me. Mojang and Issac Newton.
But really, this is awesome. And do items and gravel/sand/anvils fall the same? Also minecarts on slopes?
--- End quote ---
Thanks, and I will test gravel and anvils tomorrow. Minecart kinematics is a different experiment altogether.
--- End quote ---
Alright. But you could test momentum by the carts leaving tracks at different angles/speeds. I do know that carts travel farther while occupied. And maybe see if wind resistance slows down the anvil, or if weight has anything to do with it.
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I can't really test minecarts at different angles, since sloped track is always sloped at 45 degrees. I can do different speeds. First, I'll probably have an occupied cart at the bottom of a slope and an occupied cart at the top of a slope. I'll push the occupied cart off and see what happens when they collide. My hypothesis is that the cart that I pushed will completely stop and the cart at the bottom of the hill will take off with the speed of the other cart before they collided (think Newton's cradle). Different speeds will follow that experiment.
As for anvils, it would be air resistance, not wind resistance. Vanilla Minecraft has no wind. However, it'd be impossible to have a control test, since you can't make a vacuum in Minecraft. Weight has nothing to do with it (think dropping a bowling ball and a tennis ball from a high building, they hit the ground at the same time).
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