Post by rhyswh on May 18, 2016 8:10:54 GMT
I'm quite surprised I've never come across this topic as I'm sure I'm not the only one to have been stumped by it!
Scenario: Your driving along in the rain, headlights up. You reach a speed of 50mph and realise that the water on your headlight lid moves forward towards the front of the car.......weird . Then you hit 60mph and the water gets thrown forward and off the car! To me this makes no sense, surely the water should be traveling towards the rear of the car. The water that gets thrown forward isn't just trickling off either, you can see it being propelled forward off the car.
I like science and would love to know more about Physics. Unfortunately Physics was one of those lessons at school where the teacher was useless and we spent most of it messing about exploding bulbs and burning wire!
There must be an explanation for this phenomenon? So who's going to blow my mind!
Scenario: Your driving along in the rain, headlights up. You reach a speed of 50mph and realise that the water on your headlight lid moves forward towards the front of the car.......weird . Then you hit 60mph and the water gets thrown forward and off the car! To me this makes no sense, surely the water should be traveling towards the rear of the car. The water that gets thrown forward isn't just trickling off either, you can see it being propelled forward off the car.
I like science and would love to know more about Physics. Unfortunately Physics was one of those lessons at school where the teacher was useless and we spent most of it messing about exploding bulbs and burning wire!
There must be an explanation for this phenomenon? So who's going to blow my mind!
le sigh