{"id":255,"date":"2008-02-01T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T11:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-12-23T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T12:44:58","slug":"feline-ballistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Feline ballistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tiger-leap\"<\/p>\n

Here’s a straightforward question in ballistics:<\/p>\n

What velocity do you need to launch a 350 pound object over a 12.5 foot barrier that is 33 feet away?<\/p>\n

The answer, thanks to Raza Syed, a physicist at Northeastern University in Boston, and a pal is: 26.7 miles per hour at an angle of about 55 degrees.<\/p>\n

Now let’s make a few substitutions. Replace 350 pound object with a female Siberian Tiger called Tatiana. And for 12.5 foot barrier 33 feet away substitute the dimensions of the tiger enclosure at San Francisco zoo.<\/p>\n

Is this kind of speed possible for a tiger? Apparently yes. Syed says tigers can reach speeds of 35 miles per hour with a run up of only a few feet so this enclosure was clearly no barrier to Tatiana.<\/p>\n

After her leap for freedom, Tatiana killed 17-year old Carlos Souza and was shot dead after mauling two other victims.<\/p>\n

Ref: arxiv.org\/abs\/0801.4407<\/a>: Tiger Tales: A Critical Examination of the Tiger\u2019s Enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a straightforward question in ballistics: What velocity do you need to launch a 350 pound object over a 12.5 foot barrier that is 33 feet away? The answer, thanks to Raza Syed, a physicist at Northeastern University in Boston, and a pal is: 26.7 miles per hour at an angle of about 55 degrees. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-seaside","category-fightin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}