Overpass Passover
Bridging The Gap or Gap In The Bridge?
A trackhoe weighing 8 tons is on top of a flatbed trailer and heading east on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas. The extended shovel arm is made of hardened refined steel and the approaching overpass is made of commercial-grade concrete, reinforced with 1 1/2 inch steel rebar spaced at 6 inch intervals in a crisscross pattern layered at 1 foot vertical spacing.
Solve: When the shovel arm hits the overpass, how fast do you have to be going to slice the bridge in half? (Assume no effect for headwind and no breaking by the driver...)
Extra Credit: Solve for the time and distance required for the entire rig to come to a complete stop after hitting the overpass at the speed calculated above.
Answer - Who cares, the trucking company just bought themselves a bridge...
QuotaBillsNever insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein
Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown
Life's a game but Bridge is serious. - Unknown
The bridge to the future in the phallus. - D.H. Lawrence
Praise the bridge that carried you over. - George Colman
In Seine: Those who jump off a Paris bridge - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain
Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas
Never invest emergency savings in the stock market. - Suze Orman
Substance is not enough, accident is also required. - Greek Proverb
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. - Lauren Bacall
My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. - Rodney Dangerfield
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional. - Amy Grant
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce
Bridge Partner: A person who is undesirable if he has a one-trick mind. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg
I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach. - Upton Sinclair
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. - Mark Twain
I don't have lungs anymore. Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day. - Dylan Moran
If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. - Donald Trump
To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow
My husband is so good at home repairs that they have a special VIP area for him in the emergency room. - Unknown
To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. - Tina Fey
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. - Earl Nightingale
Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. - Bill Gates
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele