S1_ 6 The Wings Of Christmas

Authors

  • Arcchana Gajendran University of Leicester
  • Shannon Madden University of Leicester
  • Ridda Mahmood University of Leicester

Abstract

According to traditional lore, each Christmas Santa Claus travels across the globe delivering gifts to all of the children on his ‘Nice’ list. In this paper, we calculated the velocity he would travel at to be 1.56×106 ms−1. Thus, if his sleigh had aerofoils they would require a minimum surface area of 1.26×10−3 m2 each to provide lift.

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Published

14-12-2017

How to Cite

Gajendran, A., Madden, S., & Mahmood, R. (2017). S1_ 6 The Wings Of Christmas. Physics Special Topics, 16(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2571

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles