Originally posted by eskimo2
Read the story, I think it’s what made the guys on the physics board finally get it.
Ok Eskimo, let me see if I got that right
You have created the problem where there isn't any. You work under assumption that conveyor possesses some fuzzy logic and is unable to match the acceleration rate of the plane therefore it outaccelerate at such rate that wheels would be spinning so fast to be able to store enough rotational energy to act as a giant flywheel resisting to any kind of movement of a plane.
Lets say it is so and that the conveyor is accelerating faster and faster and that the wheel can actually sustain unlimited rpms.
Now, device such as this fast spinning wheel would resist all latitudinal but not longitudinal change of direction of it's axis of rotation, hence if plane moves forward, it wouldn't stop it, no matter how much force you apply to conveyor, but it would resist if plane would try to weer off to the right or left.
Before you ask me where all this energy goes, let me tell you it wouldn't go anywhere. The wheel would simply store all that energy and keep rotating until all energy would slowly wear off due to friction and other smaller forces such as drag etc.
That ability to store the energy is the reason we got flywheels and they were used since centuries.
And the plane... Ahh yeah, it would still take off.
