Magnet rule

This looks like the magnetic version of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.

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Baron Munchausen would like to have a word

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- Such a good movie, terry gilliam is legend
  
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- yessss I found someone who watched that movie finally! really good movie!
  
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The car is also made out of metal. Why do you need the metal in front?

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More weight = more magnetic

I don't know.

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The actual metal content varies. With plastic bumpers, aluminum condenser/radiator, composite support pieces, the actual amount of magnetic metal may be quite minimal, and there's practically no vehicles that have so much metal in their front end to compare to a slab of metal on the outside.

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Try using a magnet on a can of coke.
"But it's made of metal" he says.

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- And that's why I drink Pepsi.
  
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Because the hand brake is still pulled, dummie

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Issac Newton would like to have a word.

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He's dead

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- You dont wana mess with zombie newton.
  
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- …serious about the third law of motion
  
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- Your post infuriated him so much he came back to life to yell at you for this monstrosity
  
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how would you slow down

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The brake pedal slides an opposite side magnet closer to you.

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Use an electromagnet

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Play an Insane Clown Posse song and the magnet stops working.

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How do you get a magnet off your fridge?

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- Demigorgons?
  
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Turn the magnet around duh

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Archimedes once said something like: "Give me a big enough lever and a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth."

The "place to stand" part is just as critical as the lever part. You gotta have something to push off of in order to move other things. This is a closed system that pushes and pulls only against itself.

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Back where I'm from the elders used to call this kind of thing "bait for social media interaction"

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Where I'm from this exact picture was easily recognized as a funny joke

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Well where I'm from they call it artificially elevated social attraction

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Simple. The magnet weighs less than the car, so the magnet is going to be moving to the left. If the force is going to the left, that means the car can only go in reverse.

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So the vehicle just needs turning around for this to work then or.....?

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- Nope, unfortunately now the car has been magnetized, and that would swap the polarity, making it move in the opposite direction, which is reverse again.
  
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I am a complete idiot and I would also like to know.

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Newton's third law. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Basically what that means is if the magnet is exerting some amount of force on the truck to pull it towards it, the truck is exerting the exact same amount of force on the magnet in the opposite direction to pull the magnet closer to the truck. This is why when you let go of two magnets they fly towards each other instead of one staying still (unless you hold it still) and the other flying towards it.

If the arm in the picture could bend, the magnet would just stick to the front bumper. If it couldn't move, the magnet would pull on the plate, but that would be cancelled out by the plate pulling on the magnet. They're trying to attract each other, but neither of them can move, so it just stays still.

Now, if the magnet was attached to a different truck, and that started moving, it would pull the truck along just fine. If the second truck was in neutral, it'd roll backwards and the two trucks would meet in the middle. But if you wanted them both to go, you'd have to turn on the engine in the second truck, and you've effectively just invented the world's least reliable tow hook. You can't cause a car to accelerate without some outside force (the second truck's engine) pulling it along.

Newton's third law also applies to gravity. When the Earth's gravitational pull makes something fall to the ground, that something actually exerts the same amount of force pulling the Earth towards it. The earth is several orders of magnitude heavier, though, so it doesn't move very much. Gravity from the moon pulling on water in the ocean does create the tides, though.

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- If the arm in the picture could bend, the magnet would just stick to the front bumper
  
  What if the magnet was of similar mass to the truck? Assuming it could be made to balance, maybe this actually might work to move the truck such that it meets the magnet in the middle. Then the arm could slide the magnet upwards to detach, reposition it, and repeat. Of course, there are much better ways to make a truck move, but maybe it could work?
  
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The magnet pulls the truck to the right. The truck pulls the magnet to the left. They both have the same amount of pull. No one wins this tug-o-war.

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- The best you can hope for is for the truck to move slightly to the right and the magnet to move far to the left until they meet
  
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Because the magnet is attached to the truck bed, so the bumper is being pulled forward and the bed pushed back, and the forces cancel out to 0.

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- Dumb follow up question. If there’s a way to reverse the direction the bed is being pushed, with gears or something, will that work? lol
  
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Newtons laws of motion, most clearly the third.

"If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions."

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In simple terms: metal is just as much attracted to magnet as magnet is to metal, this is fundamental and doesn't change under any circumstances.

So the force driving the car forward is exactly equal to the force driving the car backward, and you can't have one without the other.

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The truck will be attracted forward towards the magnet, but the magnet will also be attracted backward towards the truck with equal force. The backward force will be transfered through the arm holding the magnet and the net force on the whole system will be 0. If there was no arm holding the truck and the magnet apart, the truck could move forward slightly and the magnet could move backward to meet it. (The magnet would move much more than the truck since they would still have equal force applying to them, and the truck's mass is much higher than the magnet's.)

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- And then to continue moving this way you'd have to unstick and move away the magnet, which would require just the same energy it takes to move the truck this far away
  
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Imagine that instead of a magnet there's a spring there. Why is it more obvious now that it doesn't work? How is a magnet different than a spring?

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- Funny thing is that this isn’t technically true. If the fan is strong enough, the current will hit the sail and reflect backward and to the side, creating some very inefficient thrust. Any fan strong enough to achieve this would do better to remove the sail entirely and just point the fan backwards, but it would technically work.
  
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- If the fan blew across an airfoil aligned perpendicular to the axis of the boat, it can definitely generate thrust. The top of the airfoil will develop a lower pressure than the bottom, and the difference in pressure causes force that moves the boat. It's just way more efficient to use a fan to push the boat.
  
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Newton’s third law would like to have a word with you 🫠

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This is basically how you build a warp drive in Kerbal Space Program

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docking port attraction force lmao

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Because the truck wouldn't be loud and obnoxious so no Truck person would ever drive it

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They can just roll down the window and talk about their beliefs while blasting that awful new aged country music.

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Why put metal in front of a car that‘s made out of… metal?

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go faster

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Physics

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Chemistry?

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Ok one reason… physics.

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The force pulling the car to the magnet is the same as the magnet pulling towards the car. These two forces cancel out each other.

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It would work much better with a carrot and a pig.

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Why do you put metal on front? The car is already metalic

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More horsepower. Duh

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- Then why not put another magnet instead for more powaa?
  
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Draw a force diagram. Then bing perpetual machines.

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Conservation of momentum

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It would in the same way a boat with a fan on it would

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But those exist and they actually work.

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A boat with a fan on it can work, because that air bounces off the sail and ends up going backward

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- In that way it does not. You can move a boat wirh a fan if you use it to blow the air away from the boat to create thrust like a plane. If you direct the fan onto the sail the force of the forward motion will be canceled out by the backwards thrust (if the sail has 100% efficiency which it does not)
  
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