16 March, 2009

Daily Question #5

An interesting question for the day. One of my favorites!

Connect both pics.
























Cracked by presumptuous pretense, MrQ?, abhishek chakraborty, prince and Jean Valjean (welcome!)

Answer : Perpetual Motion
- Capillary bowl / Self-flowing flask

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

A cat always lands on its feet. A toast falls butter side down. If both are true, you've got a never ending cycle just like the second picture. Yay.

Mr.Q? said...

is it perpetual motion first is the buttered cat paradox & second is capillary bowl both are perpetual motion machines

abhishek chakraborty said...

connect is perpetual motion.
the first pic. is of butter cat paradox.
the second pic. is of The "Capillary Bowl". It was thought that the capillary action would keep the water flowing in the tube, but since the cohesion force that draws the liquid up the tube in first place holds the droplet from releasing into the bowl, the flow is not perpetual.

Unknown said...

examples of perpetual motion
the first one shows the cat and buttered toast paradox that if u tie a buttered toast to a cat's back the cat will levitate in the air.
the second is the capillary bowl thought experiment

Anonymous said...

Boyle's Self Flowing Flask and The combination of Murphy's Law and the theory that cats always land on their feet produces an "anti-gravitatory" cat . Both are unrealisable Perpetual Motion Machines