• bach37strad
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    373 months ago

    Torque is a measurement of rotational force. Brooms would technically have thrust. If I remember my high school physics, a Broom would need at least 980 Newtons of thrust to liftoff your average sized witch.

    • @jaybone
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      113 months ago

      What’s an average sized witch?

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          i mean you have to account for air resistence and you need enough lift to actually fly. and we are not talking about the best aerodynamics here.

      • @AliasVortex
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        113 months ago

        Assuming that’s it’s just the normal force of Earth’s gravity at work on the witch, it’s just a case of working Newton’s second backwards with the gravitational “constant” acceleration ≈ 9.8 m/s²:

        F = ma

        980 N = m × 9.8 m/s²

        980 / 9.8 = (m × 9.8) / 9.8, units omitted for text clarity

        100 kg = m

        In other words, op is assuming that an average size witch masses approximately 100kg (or about 220 lbs in fingers, knees, and toes units).

        • @Dagnet
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          143 months ago

          That’s not enough for flight, only enough to nullify gravity. It makes sense OP would leave some trust for acceleration

          • @ByteJunk
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            83 months ago

            They’ll flap their arms for propulsion

    • IndiBrony
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      33 months ago

      So no torque, then? Unless the witches are rotating so fast we can’t perceive it with the human eye, like a car’s wheels travelling alongside you at a particular speed.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    103 months ago

    Brooms can put out a variety of uggaduggas depending on the model.

  • socsa
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    83 months ago

    Children should be eaten and not heard.

  • Ogmios
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    63 months ago

    Yea, that sounds about right… (¬_¬)