So, let's say each caterpillar can travel at 1 cm/s. If you have caterpillar stacked 3 high, can you tell what the velocity of the bottom, middle and top caterpillars is relative to the ground? How about relative to each other?
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Caterpillars using physics to go faster!
Caterpillars understand relative velocity -- check this out:
So, let's say each caterpillar can travel at 1 cm/s. If you have caterpillar stacked 3 high, can you tell what the velocity of the bottom, middle and top caterpillars is relative to the ground? How about relative to each other?
So, let's say each caterpillar can travel at 1 cm/s. If you have caterpillar stacked 3 high, can you tell what the velocity of the bottom, middle and top caterpillars is relative to the ground? How about relative to each other?
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