why the nut bolts fall on ground generally go below table or almirah etc?

Question

whenever i work with i slip the nutbolts on the ground and surprisingly they are found below the table,almirah,or in corner of the wall and not near the site of work why?

Answer 1

Great question. Two answers. Nuts are not round, and you have big feet. I jest in part, but, if you looked at a statistical analysis of 1000 nuts dropped randomly from somewhere right in front of you, you would see a wide 'scatter' of resting places. It's all about taking the energy gained in the fall and transferring it to lateral velocity. This is easy to do if the object is irregular ('nuts not spherical') or the target zone has scatterers ('big feet').

It gets even better when you consider that a nut will probably gain angular momentum during the scattering event. This could assist some lucky nuts in their journey to the far corners of the room. The lucky nut will gain stability, and if oriented correctly, will roll, which if you didn't guess is much more efficient than sliding or bouncing.

Cheers!

Answer 2

Murphy's law - Whatever can go wrong will go wrong! :-)

Seriously, it might be because under tables etc, and in corners of walls, they are constrained to move in specific directions and hence have more probability of stopping dead (not all sides are free, the object's legs, walls, etc are blocking it in some directions, so less degrees of freedom - once it recahes a wall corner, where it can approach only from the other two "free" directions, it is very likely to stop after hitting the wall, bouncing and hitting the other face and losing kinetic energy in the process).

Answer 3

Your floors aren't level! Even the most minute' slant can cause the nuts to roll in that direction. Its not scientific, if is gravity!

Answer 4

Entropy, that's how I explain most everything I don't understand...