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Can You Swim Faster In Syrup Or Water?

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u can swim on syrup faster coz..........its having greater upthryst since its density is greater than waterso try it out and plz tell me also the answer.......
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Can You Swim Faster In Syrup Or Water?

beeseven
Feb 11 2006, 10:11 PM
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/pf/040920-2_pf.html

The answer? Neither, according to a recent experiment at the University of Minnesota. The experiment answers an old debate between Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens. Newton said that the more viscous a liquid is, the slower an object's speed through it. Huygens said that viscosity doesn't matter. The explanation for this by those who did the experiment is that although there is more friction and drag through the syrup, you are able to apply more force to pull yourself through it than the water.

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BOAW
Feb 12 2006, 03:54 PM
ahhh w.e i cant imagine it who cares about wut they sed lol it just doesnt make sense...they dont tell u y thou...they just have experiments with it...n ima swimmer =D syrup wud just b too hard to push urself through...too dense water is much easier hah

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Razor
Feb 12 2006, 11:22 PM
QUOTE(BOAW @ Feb 12 2006, 03:54 PM) *

ahhh w.e i cant imagine it who cares about wut they sed lol it just doesnt make sense...they dont tell u y thou...they just have experiments with it...n ima swimmer =D syrup wud just b too hard to push urself through...too dense water is much easier hah

But like beeseven said..because you can apply more pressure to it...you can pullyouself along....without being aware of this information and not knowing that there is no difference...i would hav epresumed that you would swim faster in syrup because its more solidic.....if you know what i mean...but because of it being more solid..it would probably drain your energy faster because of the fact that you have to push through it with greater force and you would need to move faster to keep up above the surface probably..... wink.gif

 

 

 


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DogEater008
Feb 13 2006, 02:22 AM
well. it make sense. .because if you have more friction.. means you will get more kenetic energy from your stroke... since your body size remain controlled.. so then you would be able to go through syrup faster...

ahaha. .i found this is pretty interesting.. sounded very simple.. but it takes century for people to figure it out.. AHAH.. and the funny part is how they dumpped all those crap in the swimming pool.. and trying to the city that it is safe to drain them down the drain. .AHAHAH. .takes too much work for just one simple experiment....


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Plenoptic
Feb 13 2006, 02:40 AM
lol Now how about the question of swimming in Jello. I bet that would be fun. Who would have thought there would be a debate over whether you can swim faster in syrup or water, i see how it would be the same. You get a better push through the syrup and get a better push and in water you don't get pulled as much back as you all said.

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terminal2k
Feb 13 2006, 05:03 AM
damn, and I was going to enter the syrup swimming olympics tongue.gif

who decided they should test this? and who did they sucker in to be their syrup swimming test subject, they would have been in a sticky situation......

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FLaKes
Feb 13 2006, 10:31 AM
I cant imagine how it would be to drown in syrup. What if you accidently swallow a bit? imagine how you would open your eyes afterwards, all sticky. Though it is a fun experiment that probably has people thinking, how on earth can people think that they can swim on syrup as fast as they can swim on water?

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ongnoai
Feb 13 2006, 07:23 PM
QUOTE(beeseven @ Feb 11 2006, 11:11 PM) *

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/pf/040920-2_pf.html

The answer? Neither, according to a recent experiment at the University of Minnesota. The experiment answers an old debate between Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens. Newton said that the more viscous a liquid is, the slower an object's speed through it. Huygens said that viscosity doesn't matter. The explanation for this by those who did the experiment is that although there is more friction and drag through the syrup, you are able to apply more force to pull yourself through it than the water.

Say, I'd love to compete with a shapely young lady in a swimming pool full of syrup. I'd gladly let her win just for the the fun of seeing her get out of that mess... and take a hard look at her!

Never thought of that!

Cheers ph34r.gif

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arza1
Jun 7 2007, 11:27 PM
what a weird topic. i can just imagine the guy that thought of the question of whether you can swimfaster through syrup or water. he is some guy at some college in some door. smokin weed trying to figure out a expeiriment for his science exam that involve girls rolling around in syrup. xd.gif

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Damen
Jun 8 2007, 02:20 AM
This was also featured on brainiac. A British show now on G4.

Syrup clearly lost the fight, but it was odd that I was iffy on which on. Physics back both theories up.

Nice find.

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aloKNsh
Feb 9 2009, 10:10 AM
u can swim on syrup faster coz..........its having greater upthryst since its density is greater than water
so try it out and plz tell me also the answer.......

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Echo_of_thunder
Jan 8 2009, 11:44 PM
what a topic huh? 1st off I want to know this, who in there right mind would want to go swimming in syrup?
anyone can figure out with there brain that swimming in water would be faster. syrup being the thicker of the 2.

Question should be can you swim faster in fresh water or salt water. that is more realalistic than someone taking a swim in syrup.

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y4nzi
Dec 21 2008, 01:45 AM
haha interesting! swimmingi n syrup sounds like a fun experiment. Never really thought about the concept before. Interesting physics.

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mbafactory
Dec 7 2008, 08:27 AM
Practically if we see, more vicious the liquid is harder is to swim. So among water and syrup, it will be syrup in which you will find hard to swim.
And as far as experiments are considered, they are academic and I think there must be some very complex aspects in the calculations which are giving the results which scientists are talking about.


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sheepdog
Nov 19 2008, 03:04 PM
LOLOLOL, this topic reminds me of the one we got started on another time about the study they did as to why pregnaunt women don't tip over! Why on earth would somebody even care as to which you could swim faster in? I mean, who is going to want to swim in syurp and under what circumstances would one get the oppertunity to do such a thing?

I suspect the reason behind such sillyness it to get grants from the government to study such balderdash.

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