Quote:
Originally Posted by Molten
The formula:
The vest way to track the speed of the plane would be to find the
C=circumference of the wheels
R=# of rotations of the wheel
T=time the wheel takes to rotate that # of times
S=Speed of plane=Speed of conveyer belt
S=(C X R)/T
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The key to this problem, which has been established by some pretty intelligent aerospace engineers earlier in this thread, is that the wheels' rotation have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the speed of the plane.
It took me a while to get my head wrapped around that notion, but once I did, this problem became very simple.