Comments on: GI. Mrs Perkins’ Electric Quilt http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2009/10/gi-mrs-perkins-electric-quilt/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: Shawn http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2009/10/gi-mrs-perkins-electric-quilt/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:55:26 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=822#comment-932 What happens if you miss and just get pulled toward the Earth’s center?

]]> By: Stephen Morris http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2009/10/gi-mrs-perkins-electric-quilt/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:58:46 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/?p=822#comment-640 It is very neat that it takes the same time to fall from one place on the earth to any other point.   I hadn’t come across that before.

Galileo came up with something similar, the time it takes for a bead to fall along a rod from the top of a circle to any point on the circle is the same.

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