Saturday, May 25, 2019

Colliding blocks and pi

This is quite astounding. Imagine a large block sliding frictionlessly towards a smaller one and colliding elastically. The smaller reflects elastically off an infinite wall, and the blocks collide many times. How many? If the bigger block is a power of 10 as massive as the smaller, the answer is ... quite astounding.  Do be sure to watch the follow up video, which is here.

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