[NBLUG/talk] Totally OT, a physics puzzle...

[Walter Hansen]

I thought class started on the 13th? Or perhaps your at a different
location/semester.


>
> So, sitting in a "Cisco Academy" class & looking at the semi-famous
> Cisco poster (of a breaker cresting over the GG Bridge), the student
> next to me & I disagreed about whether or not the bridge would survive
> such a wave.
>
> One of us feels that the wave is so large & that fluid dynamics demands
> that such a large wave will be moving so fast, that it'll take down the
> bridge.
>
> The other points out that it's *only* water, & will flow freely, & the
> bridge *is* built to flex; that it'll survive.
>
>
> Can anyone provide the physics to show why either (or both) of us are
> right, or wrong?
>
>
>
> - Steve S.
>
>
>
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