Author Topic: Test your brain power with this question (Read 4146 times)

Stranger · « **on:** March 14, 2006, 05:42:41 AM »

How fast does a squirrel have to be going to have its head sticking out of both ends of a hollow log at the same time?

This questions was given for extra credit to a group of 7th graders. Please note I dont have the answer.

K Frame · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2006, 06:37:22 AM »

Sounds like a Monty Python and the Holy Grail bridge test reject question.

Justin · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2006, 06:40:12 AM »

No idea, but I bet it involves quantum theory and superstrings.

Stranger · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2006, 06:43:10 AM »

The daughter of a lady in our office was given question in Advanced Science. The teacher has never given the answer out and the question originated from a Physics test he took in college.

K Frame · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:01:43 AM »

On a serious note, I'm going to guess that the answer is either the speed of light, or just shy of the speed of light.

280plus · « **Reply #5 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:40:27 AM »

Is he chucking any wood?

Tongue

280plus · « **Reply #6 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:42:50 AM »

Depends how long the log is? If the hollow log is say only 1" long, he could stand still and his head would be sticking out both ends. Cheesy

StopTheGrays · « **Reply #7 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:54:34 AM »

-x slower than the mallet smashing down on the log while the little bugger is in there. I am sure bits on his head would be hanging out both ends afterwards. Cruel? Yes. Physics is not for the faint of heart. Tongue

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #8 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:24:41 AM »

Is it an African squirrel or a European squirrel?

- NF

Tallpine · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:33:41 AM »

About 2200 fps

(nobody said the squirrel's head still had to be in once piece, did they.....? Tongue

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charby · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:35:46 AM »

depends upon your photo shop skills

C

Stranger · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:47:12 AM »

You have all the info available

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #12 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:01:51 AM »

OK. I'll hand in my answer.

The head has a 0.5 probability of being at one end of the log and a 0.5 probability of being at the other end. But if you observe the squirrel-log system, then the system decoheres and it's going to be at one end or the other.

It's Schroedinger's squirrel. And QM is driving it nuts.

- NF

280plus · « **Reply #13 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:24:26 AM »

Well, if I'm understanding all that quantam mechanics quackery I just read Tongue

the squirrel would not need any speed at all and simply exisits with it's head sticking out of both ends of the log. As a matter of fact, I'd say it exisits everywhere at once in all positions. Until it is observed that is.

How'd I do? rolleyes

Phantom Warrior · « **Reply #14 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:39:20 AM »

Quote from: Nathaniel Firethorn

It's Schroedinger's squirrel. And QM is driving it nuts.

HA HA HA. So true.

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #15 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:41:00 AM »

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How'd I do? rolleyes

www.bradycampaign.org" target="_blank">F+. Cheesy

- NF

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2006, 11:10:17 AM »

Stranger's wave functions collapse to reveal the following message in another article:

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I know this is going to drive some of you nuts but in order to get the teacher to answer the question was must give the seventh grader the correct response.

Alright, alright. Speed doesn't matter. The log was ten feet long and the squirrel had an eleven-foot-long head.

Made it convenient reaching those high acorns.

- NF

280plus · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2006, 12:12:19 PM »

I'm very honored to receive an F+ from the Brady Bunch!

Cheesy

Sylvilagus Aquaticus · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2006, 03:05:24 PM »

First you have to believe that a squirrel and a log can physically and corporeally exist at a common singularity in concurrent space....

I'm gonna take a WAG and say the answer is 42. Cheesy

Regards,
Rabbit.

griz · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2006, 05:49:14 PM »

Simple, but trick question. There are two squirrels.

jefnvk · « **Reply #20 on:** March 14, 2006, 06:25:59 PM »

All I know is that if you run over a hole where a squirrel is sticking his head up with cross country skis, you scare the *expletive deleted*it out of him.

Big_R · « **Reply #21 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:35:09 AM »

Actually, it doesn't need to be moving at all, if the hollow log is narrower than the squirrel's head.

Ryan

Ben · « **Reply #22 on:** March 15, 2006, 04:43:37 AM »

Or else the squirrel exists in a quantum singularity, so its head is meeting itself, or it's older and younger self if it is (they are) in a simultaneity plane.

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #23 on:** March 15, 2006, 05:28:57 AM »

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Simple, but trick question. There are two squirrels.

Each with an infinite number of legs:

THEOREM: All squirrels have an infinite number of legs.

PROOF: Every squirrel has two legs in back and fore legs in front. Two plus fore equals six, which is an even number, but is also odd number of legs for a squirrel. The only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, all squirrels have an infinite number of legs. Q.E.D.

Makes it very easy to hoist their eleven-foot-long heads up those trees...

- NF

TarpleyG · « **Reply #24 on:** March 15, 2006, 05:42:38 AM »

Jack Bauer would just kill the squirrel and cut his head in two and make it look like his head was sticking out both sides of the tree.

Greg

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