• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    The magnet on the bonnet is pulling the car forwards as much as the magnet hanging on the wire is pulling backwards towards the car, and since they share the same root object (the car) the net motion is zero.

    If either of those magnets were rooted on the ground, the car would move (albeit not very far)

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    15 days ago

    reminds me of the videos of that guy who sits in wheeled bucked ostensibly pushing himself with an umbrella and a leaf blower; guy carries a leaf blower, umbrella and bucket around all the time just to make people look at him. lol