{"id":4179,"date":"2024-11-23T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2025-01-18T17:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T22:25:36","slug":"air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/23\/air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4176\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Air-Travel-Fig2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Air-Travel-Fig2a.jpg 513w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Air-Travel-Fig2a-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>This is a nice problem from <em>Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cProblem 62.<\/strong> A plane flies from A to B and back again with a constant engine speed.\u00a0 Turn-around time may be neglected.\u00a0 Will the travel time be more with a wind of constant speed blowing in the direction from A to B than in still air?\u00a0 (Does your intuition agree?)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Air-Travel-answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Air-Travel-240525.pdf\">Air Travel<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice problem from Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges. \u201cProblem 62. A plane flies from A to B and back again with a constant engine speed.\u00a0 Turn-around time may be neglected.\u00a0 Will the travel time be more with a wind of constant speed blowing in the direction from A to B than in still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,133,81],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-500-math-challenges","tag-algebra","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}