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You try to save them all by tackling the guy on the second track. The train is 400m from the wye in the track but 375m from the point the second person can decide to flip the switch. You are 270m from the second person. The train travels at a steady 15m/s. You start running at an acceleration of 0.5m/s/s. Can you tackle the second person to prevent them from flipping the switch?

I dunno. I just made up numbers though.

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Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I assume if they DON’T flip it, it gets passed yo the next guy with 4 people tied to the track.

33junctions down the road, and it’s the population of the earth tied down.

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- OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes but that is literally the opposite of the premise I presented. That’s how it’s normally seen, but this is just fun and dumb high school physics question. K thx bai
  
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iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You try to save them all by tackling the guy on the second track

Or ask the train driver to stop

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