River Over A River
If You Are Not A Physics Person,
Read The Last Paragraph And Learn A Fact Of Physics.
AMAZING.....
Even After You See it,
it is Still Hard To Believe!
Water Bridge in Germany .
What A Feat ! The Photo Was Taken On The Day Of inauguration . . .
To those who appreciate engineering projects,
here's a puzzle for your armchair engineers and physicists.
Question:
Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic,
or just the weight of the water?
Answer: It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water!
Why ??
A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship, regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.
Six years, 500 million Euros,
918 meters long . . .
now, this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany , as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg ,
near Berlin .
