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- Could a fire tornado of 60m/s produce enough force to flip an 8000kg stationary object with the dimensions of a fire truck?
Posting from over here in Australia, we've been going through some nasty bushfires and on the news I saw a report of a fire truck that had a full tank of water get flipped on its side and resulting in one fire fighter losing his life - apparently a fire tornado flipped the truck.
My question stems from suspicion as I wouldn't think a fire tornado, especially a new one ( apparently it just whirled up next to the truck out of nowhere) would have enough force to flip an 8 Ton Object that is stationary on flat ground.
Fire tornados generally don't exceed speeds of around 64m/s which it would be safe to assume this was lesser in speed due to it not being huge in scale of fire tornados.
This is where I get lost though, my knowledge on actual equations in physics is about as broad as whatever I remember from my high school physics class about a decade ago.
So, I am not asking that someone has to explain if it could or couldn't step by step (you can if you want), but mathematically could a moderate fire tornado produce enough force to flip a stationary 8000KG object with the dimensions of a fire truck on flat stable ground?
I'm not even sure this would be the right place to ask such question but I appreciate any replies in advance.
My question stems from suspicion as I wouldn't think a fire tornado, especially a new one ( apparently it just whirled up next to the truck out of nowhere) would have enough force to flip an 8 Ton Object that is stationary on flat ground.
Fire tornados generally don't exceed speeds of around 64m/s which it would be safe to assume this was lesser in speed due to it not being huge in scale of fire tornados.
This is where I get lost though, my knowledge on actual equations in physics is about as broad as whatever I remember from my high school physics class about a decade ago.
So, I am not asking that someone has to explain if it could or couldn't step by step (you can if you want), but mathematically could a moderate fire tornado produce enough force to flip a stationary 8000KG object with the dimensions of a fire truck on flat stable ground?
I'm not even sure this would be the right place to ask such question but I appreciate any replies in advance.