Time to get yo'Shrove On!
Happy Shrove Tuesday, everyone!
In honour of the Mardi Gras, senior physics lecturer, Dr Garry Tungate at Birmingham University has come up with the solution to toss the perfect pancake. (...)
As a Freed-from-Catholicism Athiest, nothing says Hooray for Fat Tuesday quite like the perfect pancake!
Thank YOU Science!
In honour of the Mardi Gras, senior physics lecturer, Dr Garry Tungate at Birmingham University has come up with the solution to toss the perfect pancake. (...)
The pancake, weighing 50g, should be flipped into the air at a speed of 10 miles per hour, ensuring that it will take less than 0.5 of a second to reach the top of its trajectory. At this point the pancake should have rotated 90 degrees at a rate of 0.55 revs per second.
It then takes a further 0.45 seconds to make it back down to the pan, rotating a further 90 degrees on the way, making a total airtime of just nine-tenths of a second.
The pancake will then hit the pan with a velocity of 4.5 metres per second. Failure to position the pan correctly will result in the pancake continuing its journey on to the floor, which it will hit at 14 miles per hour, just 1.1 seconds after its launch. Worse, it will land uncooked side down.(...)
As a Freed-from-Catholicism Athiest, nothing says Hooray for Fat Tuesday quite like the perfect pancake!
Thank YOU Science!
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