What speed does santa have to travel at to reach all the kids on earth in the space of 24 hours.?
And how much time does he have to visit to each one.?
2006-12-09 04:48:20 · 18 answers · asked by psychodad 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Our equatorial radius = 6,378.14 km
Surface area of Earth
= 4 x pi x r^2
= 4 x pi x (6,378.14)^2
= 511,208,374 km2
Area covered by Santa in a second
= 511,208,374 / (24 x 60 x 60)
= 5,917 km2/s
OR
Number of children in the world = 2.2 billion
Time spent per child
= 24 x 60 x 60 / 2,200,000,000
= 0.000 039 3 seconds per child
2006-12-09 04:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Kemmy 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well for Santa to do this he would be travelling at some thing like 2 or 3000 times the speed of sound and around one thousandth of a second at each house. I'm not surprised no one sees him Christmas night
2006-12-09 22:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by Jimbo 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say that Santa has the ability to slow down time...in effect entering his own time space so that 24hrs for us could mean a year or two for him, this would give him as much time as he needs to visit everyone in the given 24hrs.
2006-12-09 12:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Santa comes from the land of the midnight sun and for six months of the year it never goes dark,so he can take his time because he has six months to get on with his job,ps is it true that his wife is called mary as in marry christmas
2006-12-09 12:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wonder how old you are? Do you REALLY believe in Santa Clause? Because that's really stupid. How could one man truly fly around the world and visit everyone in one night? He doesn't! reindeer dont fly, no such things as elves, have you ever noticed that some people dont even GET presents? And its not because they're naughty, some people are just poor. When you wake up Christmas morning it should be about Jesus' birth not santa claus, all those gifts under your tree are from your parents and family, not some fat jolly guy in a red coat pretending to be all about christmas. It's mean to lie to little kids telling him hes real. oh, and have you ever realized that ppl have believed in santa clause for like EVER and that would mean he was several hundred years old and ppl don't live that long anymore.
There was once I real guy names St. Nick but he just gave money to the poor. Hewas Sainted and given a day to celebrate him. THe date was December 8th, not the 25th. He's not about christmas. anyway, hes long gone!
2006-12-09 12:57:14 · answer #5 · answered by redhed 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
the speed of light 30 seconds each
2006-12-09 12:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by karenmariawayne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he has more than 24 hours and he doesnt go to everyone's house --so take out the ones taht dont beleive and the ones that are naughty and plus he has around 2 days because the when its morning here he goes to china and stuff and then he comes here...and he's there long enough to eat the cookie and drink teh milk :)
2006-12-09 12:59:31 · answer #7 · answered by =] 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2000 miles per hour and 1 second at each house
2006-12-09 12:56:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
# of children (age 0 -14) worldwide = 1.79 billion (see https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#People)
earth's surface = 197 million mi² (see http://www.planetpals.com/planet2.html)
seconds in 24 hr period = 24*60*60 = 86400 sec
So Santa needs to deliver gifts to 20718 kids/sec
how many mi²/kid = 197 miliion mi²/1.79 billion kids = 0.11 mi²/kid
Santa's speed = 0.11 mi²/kid * 20718 kids/sec = 2279 mi²/sec
So Santa visits each kid 1/20718 sec/kid or 4.83 x 10^-5 or 0.0000483 sec/kid
2006-12-09 13:22:36 · answer #9 · answered by euclidjr 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
most likely speeds upward of mach 20 and probably twice to check if he did the job right.
2006-12-09 12:51:26 · answer #10 · answered by Isti H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋