If you have a trailer full of parekeets and they way 10,000 pounds but the trailer only has a capacity for 5,000 pounds, if you keep half of the birds flying would they still weigh 10,000 pounds? So do birds that are flying in a trailer still weigh the trailer down?
2006-11-14 13:52:47 · 3 answers · asked by traxx10 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I don't think that it is possible to fit that many parakeets into one trailer of that size. Assuming that each parakeet weighs one ounce and 16 ounces make a pound 10,000 / 16 = 625 that means that 312.5 parakeets have to be flying at the same time. Not feasible, but all that aside would have to say that the birds that are flying still weigh the trailer down. Because:
a. Air has mass and therefore contributes the the weight in the trailer.
b. Movement displaces air which creates pressure that pressure creates more weight.
c. There are still 10,000 pounds of parakeets in the trailer.
But I could be wrong.
2006-11-14 14:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by ikeman32 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the 5000 all keep flying they exert no force on the trailer supports and so they would not 'weight' the trailer down.
2006-11-14 14:12:32 · answer #2 · answered by Nightstalker1967 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they don't add wait to trailer
2006-11-14 14:13:13 · answer #3 · answered by VicK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋