Two Ropes Hanging From Ceiling Puzzle

But it doesn t have to burn at a uniform rate.

Two ropes hanging from ceiling puzzle.

You re in a room with a ceiling exactly 100 feet high. A mass hanging from two ropes. Find the the tension of the ropes. A logic brain teaser.

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One rope makes an angle of 50 with the ceiling while the other makes an angle of 29. How can he measure 45 mins using only these two ropes. He will burn one of the rope at both the ends and the second rope at one end. He actually wants to measure 45 mins.

Find the tensions in the two ropes. This is the only equipment you can use. Here s another oldie from a book slightly paraphrased to make it more quantitative. Two fifty foot ropes are suspended from a forty foot ceiling about twenty feet apart.

Bends are knots to tie two ropes together. Armed with only a knife how much of the rope can you steal. Two thin but sturdy ropes are hanging from fixed hooks at the ceiling and just touch the ground close enough that you can grab both of them at the same time comfortably. This part is actually a trick question.

An object is hanging from a ceiling and two ropes are holding it up at angles. Let s begin by drawing our mass hanging from the two ropes. The two poles are a distance of 0. You are told that each of the two ropes has the following property.

The cable has to be doubled back upon itself and the two poles must be coincident and 0 m apart. If the cable is 80 m then half of it is 40 m. If you light one end of the rope it will take exactly one hour to burn all the way to the other end.