Anyone actually weighed the mass of a Griffith????
Discussion
RichB said:
Being Pistonheads, I'd have thought by now you'd have some smart-arse telling you that mass is different to weight! Rich...
p.s. mind you didn't some poor sod get his Chimaera totaly immersed in water during the 2000 floods? - he could have calculated the mass for us!
Yes - but you wouldn't have been surprised either if you found that TVR weigh their vehicles on the same planet that they test the bhp, would you?
Don't start me on TVRs getting flooded, happened to me last week, but all sorted now, thank goodness!
jigs said:
Surely that's the wrong way round, Manek - lowest gravity at highest point not lowest!
Nope. Manek is right. The trench has high sides, like a canyon. There is therefore a lot of matter above you, and its gravitational pull partially counters the pull from the rest of the matter beneath you.
I didn't think the Atlantic had a mid ocean trench as the boundary is caused by divergent oceanic plates causing a sea mount or the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Perhaps a better place would be Challenger Deep (11,000m below sea level) where the Pacific Plate is subducting the Philippine Plate. This would also test the Blackpool factory's ability to waterproof their cars properly.
marino said:
I didn't think the Atlantic had a mid ocean trench as the boundary is caused by divergent oceanic plates causing a sea mount or the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Perhaps a better place would be Challenger Deep (11,000m below sea level) where the Pacific Plate is subducting the Philippine Plate. This would also test the Blackpool factory's ability to waterproof their cars properly.
This is just a very minor point but wouldn't the water pressure at that depth disintigrate the car into atomic particles which would then dissolve in the water and hence the car would effective be weightless.
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