Dropping toast

[bird_81]

Does anyone know the equation for how to work out why toast always lands butter side down down? and why is this?

[bimbim]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbplrd/Lewis_Dartnell_- _A_Toast-based_Proof.pdf

[bird_81]

Thanks a lot. My friend wants to do this experiment for her PGCE course, but I have to agree with you Eddie, it's going to be very messy!!!

[Loosehead]

you can create an anti gravity machine by strapping a peice of toast butter side up to the back of a cat . Then drop the cat viola the cat hovers above the ground rotating.

[camioneur]

surely the butter side goes down first because it's the heavier side of the toast, or is that too easy an explanation?

[camioneur]

Loosehead, what a fantastic idea, just one snag, if you tried strapping anything to the back of our cat you could do several experiments on the effects of sudden skin removal and loss of vision with eyeballs rolling around on the floor!

[TeeGee]

Some time ago I remember watching a TV programme attempting to prove / disprove 'Muphy's Law' (or whatever else you call it ! ). The AA and RAC said that it attended to more punctures in fine weather than wet and that 'wet weather' punctures were remembered because they were more traumatic. You stand a 1 in 4 chance of approaching a 'lone phone box' from the door side, you remember the bad occasions because of the dog mess.
A team of people put a variety of fats on slices of bread then tossed them into the air. The type of fat, butter, marg, lard, sunflower etc. made no difference, the result was an outstanding 50 / 50.
The main conclusion of the programme was that ' Murphy's Law states that Murphy's Law can be neither proved nor disproved'.

Long live Murphy's Law.