Pissing Contest

[forestdesert]

Inspired by 31spoonerstreet's rather intriguing and informative thesis on urinal etiquette, it suddenly occurred to me that one could test the limits of projectile motion in the following manner:

What if you decide to stand at the edge of the stall behind the far right urinal which is currently being occupied by a man-in-progress and then aim your spout directly

Comments

[kurdy]

That was......informative. I'd try it, but I am such a retard with mathematics that an miscalculation could very easily happen, and it wouldn't be pretty.

[nexrad]

Saff, you win my Roxor Math Prize for the day. :-) This prize consists of a congratulations plus a verbal-online agreement that the next we meet, I owe you either a coffee of your choice at Starbucks, a slice of pizza at Sbarro's, or approximately $3.00 in change. ;-)

BTW... I think you've surpassed me in the title of "math geek" ;-) That, however, is a good thing! ^^ Math geeks rock. lol... have a great Thursday.

[forestdesert]

Right now, I could go for a Pizza©, but tomorrow morning I may opt for coffee at StarCorp®, who knows.

[nexrad]

LOL ;-) ... gotta love that corporate junk. Oh well, we could use your piss-findings to urinate atop some corporate giant's head. That'd be priceless.

[scrapdog]

vexit(t) = 1-(2t-1)6
0<=t<=1

If Hobbes enters the equation near the beginning (t~=0) or near the end (t~=1) of the stream's lifetime, he will get his golden shower, albeit a brief one. But given your snapshot scenario where t remains constant at 0.5, your math holds up.

You can do the theory, I'll do the practice. It's great to be a guy. >:)

[forestdesert]

Indeed you are correct! Here I have assumed static flow and neglected the variation in vexit near t=0 and t=1. Your equation, it seems, is adequate for describing this behavior. I will amend my post accordingly.

[coinslot]

In the end all that really matters is that the seat gets put back down.

[hallwayjulie]

HAHAHAA!

Loving the disclaimer.