Thursday, June 7, 2007

How do you say "HC" in Japanese?

Here's a video for all you physics freaks out there from a Japanese show Fountain of Trivia. What happens when you shoot a ball at 100 km/h from the back of a truck going 100 km/h? It's kind of a lengthy clip, and a bit overly dramatic for the end result:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would be interested to know why it rolled towards the vehicvle after dropping. It rolled quite a distance which would make me think that it was more than just the car traveling at a higher speed.

Dutch said...

It could have been the gradient of the ground, or maybe the ball had a little "English" on it.

That was pretty cool though.

Swany said...

Yeah, I was thinking it had a bit of backspin. Try figuring out all the vectors and such on that! Oy! I don't miss drawing vectors!