Question 07/96
A very tall chimney (width
w
, height
h
) starts falling. At some point it will break as shown in the Fig.(b). When will this happen and what will be the height of the breaking point?
This was one of the qualifying exam questions at MIT.
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A very tall chimney (width w, height h) starts
falling. At some point it will break as shown in the Fig.(b). When
will this happen and what will be the height of the breaking point?
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