Upside Down Mountains in Real Life
Research on global mountain surface areas: http://bit.ly/1eJyqCM This video is supported by http://www.lynda.com/minutephysics Thanks to the following Subbable subscribers for making MinutePhysics...
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Mountains tend to be narrower at the top than they are at the bottom – otherwise they’lleventually fall down – but that doesn’t mean that mountains are always SMALLER atthe top. Because, what matters to most land creatures is the amount of land; that is,the surface area, not the volume – unless you’re a mining company that plans to pulverizethe entire mountain into smithereens. Then volume matters.But to the rest of us, we care about surface area – and surprisingly, the area of landon a mountain doesn’t necessarily get smaller as you go higher up the mountain – especiallywhen that mountain is part of a mountain range, as mountains tend to be.Simple, lone mountains with shapes like cones or spikes or inverted parabolas do indeedhave less ...
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Mountains tend to be narrower at the top than they are at the bottom – otherwise they’lleventually fall down – but that doesn’t mean that mountains are always SMALLER atthe top. Because, what matters to most land creatures is the amount of land; that is,the surface area, not the volume – unless you’re a mining company that plans to pulverizethe entire mountain into smithereens. Then volume matters.But to the rest of us, we care about surface area – and surprisingly, the area of landon a mountain doesn’t necessarily get smaller as you go higher up the mountain – especiallywhen that mountain is part of a mountain range, as mountains tend to be.Simple, lone mountains with shapes like cones or spikes or inverted parabolas do indeedhave less ...
