singapore flyer

[johnsam]

I find it hard to belive the singapore flyer travels 18 kilometers in1 revolution is this correct or should it be 1.8 kilometers . i know it stands 165 meter and is 150 meters in diameter

[jno]

one revolution is going to be somewhere in the region of 300-500 meters, then. Nowhere near 1.8km let alone 18km.

[Supernick]

http://www.singaporeflyer.com/site/en/about-us /fun-facts-about-singapore-flyer-2.html

Here's their website by the way

[jno]

so there you are then: "In those 30 minutes, you would have travelled 18 kilometres around the circumference of the Flyer at 36km/hour".

If you'd been travelling at 36kmh, which you weren't. Peculiar sort of statistic.

[brachiopod]

Peculiar indeed.

If it has a diameter of 150m, then its circumference (given by pi x d) is about 471m.

And it rotates once every 30 mins? Then that is ( a linear velocity) of approx 942m per hour or less than a km per hour.

Irrespective of its diameter, its angular velocity is about 0.00349 rad s^-1 (radians per second).

In keeping with the spirit of the Singapore Flyer website, I calculate that to be equivalent to;

about 23.7 football pitches per double-decker bus squared

or;

around 146 times the height of the Eiffel Tower per litre for each country-the-size-of-Wales .

I am happy to have helped illustrate these statistics for you.

[China Doll]

Sorry!

Hello brachi! Nice to see my favourite 'pod's pixels again. Hope all is well with you.

[brachiopod]

Hi China, me ol'Doll !

Yes, still shuffling around the old mortal coil. The two 'pod larvae keeping me busy, hence not being on here very much these days.

Hope all's well with you.

Had a quick lurk on here yesterday, and glad to see the old fave subjects are still going strong over on News, ie. 'Muslins' [sic], 'Maddie' and 'PC-Gone-Mad'

I see Chatterbank is back, though.

Anyway, in fairness to johnsam's question - perhaps that's where we should be !!