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MIT Physics Demo -- No-Win Tug of War

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Uploaded by on Nov 14, 2008

Two people on carts pull on a long rope, demonstrating that the center of mass does not move.

See the original video on MIT TechTV - http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/850-mit-physics-demo----no-win-tug-of-war

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  • This is what MIT students pay $40,000 a year for.

  • they had to go to MIT to learn that?

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  • why no kiss?

  • Are they reenacting the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp?

  • WOW, prepare your dress suit for Stockholm!

  • gay.....

  • Fuck you its fake

  • What a romantic experiment

  • I think it's trying to display application of force without translation.

  • This would have been more instructive if one of them had not pulled at all, but just held fast. It also would have been more instructive if the rope had been long enough to actually show some movement, but as another commenter said, it's all fudged because you can't get the real world to behave like a simplified model.

  • groundbreaking science...

  • sittin on trolleys and tugin rope... :/

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