In his classic 1940 book Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, physicist George Gamow imagined a trip to a "quantum jungle" where the value of Planck's constant h was 1.0 J*s instead of its real value of 6.63 x 10-34 J*s. Imagine that while exploring in this quantum jungle, you disturb a community of bats residing in a ruined temple. Imagine that a "beam" of identical bats (each with a mass of 0.5 kilograms) flies at 6 meters per second through two temple doors 3 meters apart and into a flat, large courtyard beyond. If you are 30 meters from the doors, where could you stand in the courtyard to avoid being struck by any bats? (Hint: the answer is 1.6 meters, 4.9 meters, etc, to either side of the center line perpendicular to the doors)
In his classic 1940 book Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, physicist George Gamow imagined a trip to a "quantum jungle" where the value of Planck's constant h was 1.0 J*s instead of its real value of 6.63 x 10-34 J*s. Imagine that while exploring in this quantum jungle, you disturb a community of bats residing in a ruined temple. Imagine that a "beam" of identical bats (each with a mass of 0.5 kilograms) flies at 6 meters per second through two temple doors 3 meters apart and into a flat, large courtyard beyond. If you are 30 meters from the doors, where could you stand in the courtyard to avoid being struck by any bats?
(Hint: the answer is 1.6 meters, 4.9 meters, etc, to either side of the center line perpendicular to the doors)
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