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Originally posted by DrEugeneFixer
The potential energy is transformed not only into kinetic energy, but also into work done in the act of bending steel, crushing concrete, shattering glass, etc. The difference between the velocity achieved, and the velocity achieved if no resistance were encountered can be assumed to be work done overcoming the structure below.
You can assume whatever you want. How can you figure out the energy required to bend the steel if you don't even know the quantity of steel on each level?
How can you figure out the energy required to bend the steel if you don't even know the quantity of steel on each level?
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
Doesn't that happen in the collision after the falling mass has been given kinetic energy?
You can assume whatever you want. How can you figure out the energy required to bend the steel if you don't even know the quantity of steel on each level?
psik
After all this time, haven't you spent even a single moment using the blueprints of the towers to calculate the amount of steel on each level, and then calculate the weight and potential energy? It seems like you're all talk and no action, psikey.
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
Doesn't that happen in the collision after the falling mass has been given kinetic energy?
You can assume whatever you want. How can you figure out the energy required to bend the steel if you don't even know the quantity of steel on each level?
psik
After all this time, haven't you spent even a single moment using the blueprints of the towers to calculate the amount of steel on each level, and then calculate the weight and potential energy? It seems like you're all talk and no action, psikey.
It has been denied, but surely there must be a fast-acting defensive system against possible truck bombs etc.
So everybody is supposed to believe and most people don't investigate.
What information there is, is scattered around.
So we have ten years of nonsense.
And then the physics profession mostly does not touch the subject.
Very curious psychology about a subject with nothing to do with psychology.
Physicists refusing to do physics.
Getting the sky correct in a movie is more important.
We can always wonder what would have happened if the majority of physicists had announced in 2002 that there is no way the results of airliner impacts could have done that.
Of course now they will look pretty silly if they make such an announcement.
The reasoning for how did the plane fit in the too-small imprint.....
....on the Pentagon facade is that the plane was not intact at the impact moment.
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by psikeyhackr
Well, if you use logic, not having the horizontal beams can only work in your advantage when calculating energy. The mass will calculate lower than it should be, and if you are able to calculate more energy than is needed to collapse even without the horizontal mass, then you will have proven the official story.
It means wondering why physicists and structural engineers in the United States do not insist on it and it being public.
Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by psikeyhackr
It's because physicists ans structural engineers understand all the physics involved.
It means wondering why physicists and structural engineers in the United States do not insist on it and it being public.
You don't.
That's why they have the degree and you don't.
That must be why none of them have tried or even claimed to try and build a model that can completely collapse by damaging its own components.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by psikeyhackr
That must be why none of them have tried or even claimed to try and build a model that can completely collapse by damaging its own components.
Please look up "fracture critical".
Well whoop-dee-doo you can come up with another piece of irrelevant jargon.
But anyone can do a computer simulation of 109 mass floating in space supported by nothing and determine that a collapse with NO FRACTURES takes a minimum of 12 seconds. So how could a structure with 109 levels that HAD TO BE STRONG ENOUGH to support the weight come down in 25 seconds even if there were critical fractures at every level? Creating the fractures would still require energy which would slow the falling mass.
But then you can't come up with a shred of evidence about critical fracturing you can just throw the term around.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by psikeyhackr
But anyone can do a computer simulation of 109 mass floating in space supported by nothing and determine that a collapse with NO FRACTURES takes a minimum of 12 seconds. So how could a structure with 109 levels that HAD TO BE STRONG ENOUGH to support the weight come down in 25 seconds even if there were critical fractures at every level? Creating the fractures would still require energy which would slow the falling mass.
How long does it take to fracture something? Once you overload an element how long does the actual fracture, the actual break take? Is it measured in weeks or milliseconds?