cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 1 month agoWhat would happen if two cannons fire a cannonball at each other at the exact same angle and the canonballs hit each other perfectly head-on, do they cancel out?message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareWhat would happen if two cannons fire a cannonball at each other at the exact same angle and the canonballs hit each other perfectly head-on, do they cancel out?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 1 month agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDuchess@piefed.linenoise.viplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoI don’t think so. This mythbusters clip is a good example of two sets of energy inputs canceling each other out. In the double cannon experiment OP posits the energy becomes additive.
so they would cancel each other out?
I don’t think so. This mythbusters clip is a good example of two sets of energy inputs canceling each other out. In the double cannon experiment OP posits the energy becomes additive.