if one gets off a bus and has to get to the front door of their house and it is raining:
The volume of space swept by the body between the bus and the door is identicle. Therefore assuming a constant rate of deluge, the number of falling raindrops swept (below the crown of the head) is the same. However, the number of raindrops falling directly on to the top of your head is proportional to the time spent exposed to the rain, so running reduces the component.
But running will deposit all the swept comonent in a shorted time . This will produce greater apparent wetting since normal evaporative drying has less time to work. So, for light showers, with small swept and falling componants, walking is probably preferable. We make this complex decision completly unconsiously, while also talking into account the likelihood of the rain becoming harder or lighter, the distance we have to travel, and our ability to run.
It would be interesting to confirm this theory by filming pedestrians, recording the rate of rainfall, and relating the latter to the point at which the former begin to run.
Thanks for the reassurance: looks like I won't need to start running. BTW I'd also like to know details of mythbusters- TV? Net?
I'm not sure it is very helpful to consider odd and even as illusory. It is a way of patterning and making sense of our world, like positive and negative.
Originally posted by Matt HortinMythbusters is a tv show.
Thanks for the reassurance: looks like I won't need to start running. BTW I'd also like to know details of mythbusters- TV? Net?
I'm not sure it is very helpful to consider odd and even as illusory. It is a way of patterning and making sense of our world, like positive and negative.
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html
Also the concept of odd and even was'nt my idea. It's a question that was asked that I never heard the answer to.