• Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of… Metal

    • late_night@sopuli.xyz
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      6 months ago

      Well, the metal sees the magnet and wants to eat it so it move toward it. It’s the ol’ Magnet on a Stick trick and metal is easily fooled.

  • Matombo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fun at partys guy: While the car will actually experience a force torwards the magnet, so will the magnet experience an equal amount of force torwards tha car. Given the connection between the car and the magnet is stiff, these opposing forces will stress the connection and create a reactive force in there according to Newtens 3rd law, ultimatly canseling the forces out and neither the car nor the magnet will move.

    If you however remove the stiff connection, the car and the magnet will move torwards each other untill they meet.