how far apart will you be when you get to the pole?
2006-08-22 15:22:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
you will be standing right next to each other
2006-08-22 15:27:15 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are following parallel lines you will always be 100 feet apart. If you get closer together or further apart, you are not in parallel. So, when you get to the north pole, you still be 100 feet apart. However, technically, if one of you is standing directly on the north pole, the other one will be 100 feet off of the north pole.
2006-08-22 15:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by cool_breeze_2444 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you walk in parallel lines, you will be 100 feet from each other at every point along your journey, but you cannot both be at the north pole and 100 feet from each other at the same time.
2006-08-22 15:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 ft.
By definition two lines in 3D space are parallel only if they neither diverge nor converge, i.e., they are equidistant apart all the way to infinity. By your problem statement, that equal distance is 100 feet.
If you are trying to imply you'd bump into your friend at the N. pole, you won't. Parallel lines do not follow the great circles (longitudes) that do converge at the N. pole. In fact, when the two buds reach abreast of the N. pole (only one can actually touch it and then only if one of the parallel lines intersects the N. pole), they will have crossed up to 180 deg of longitudes.
2006-08-22 15:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by oldprof 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you start walking in parallel lines, you will be still 100 feet apart. However, if you and your friend walk toward the pole to reach it, obviously, you will bump into each other
2006-08-22 15:56:13 · answer #5 · answered by Duke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The North pole is a vast wilderness, you and your friend would still be 100 feet apart. But if you walked to the absolute north, the center of the north pole you would be side by side.
2006-08-22 15:34:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will meet at the pole.
Lines of longitude get closer together as you go north and meet at the north pole. Not the magnetic north, the geographic north pole. Lines of longitude, unlike lines of latitude are not parallel.
2006-08-22 15:27:18 · answer #7 · answered by Tom-PG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are truly walking parallel to each other you will remain 100 feet apart. If you are following lines of longitudinal you will end up at the same spot.
2006-08-22 15:28:06 · answer #8 · answered by baudeagle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we walk at the same rate, neither of us will reach the pole ( we will elbow each other into oblivion ). This doesn't take into account ,'parallel'. I don't see how two people can walk in parallel if their destination is a single point.
2006-08-22 15:39:43 · answer #9 · answered by butch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how fast my friend walk or probably swim or climb.
We will meet on the pole if nobody from us would die during the journey.
2006-08-22 15:27:13 · answer #10 · answered by cooler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your paths will intersect at the pole.
2006-08-22 15:40:47 · answer #11 · answered by dak0tawayne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋