Why does toast always fall butter side down?
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Actually it does not always fall butter side down. Butter side down is dependent on the cost of the carpet.
its called sod's law
its heavier on that side
Because the butter makes that side heavier.
It's heavier on that side. It's centre of gravity is (roughly) in the middle as you look at it, but on the butter side. Therefore unless it's only fallen a short way, or is perfectly balanced butter-side up (unlikely), it will spin and inevitably land butter-side down.
Pointless and annoying enough answer (for a pointless and annoying question)?
The butter upsets the balance of the toast making it more heavy then the other side. Saying that the toast I dropped this morning landed butter side up
pretty much yeah. unless you're really lucky. the butter makes that side heavier and life just seeems to be that way.
It doesn't but if it did it would be a great energy source.
Cats always land on their feet, if the thing about toast was true you could put toast on a cats back,butter side up, and drop it.
The cat and the butter side of the toast would both want to hit the floor, so it would spin.
Wire it up to a generator & hey presto, immediate free energy.
To increase the amount of energy substitute the toast for an open carton of take away chinese or indian.
Does it? Honestly, I never checked. but if it does, that's because its centre of gravity is closer to that side. Butter is denser than toast.
It was shown on Mythbusters that this is not true. In fact toast fell mostly buttered side up due to the fact that when it is buttered the toast was pressed down forming a cup.
i once saw this amazing show where they pushed 100s of pieces of toast of the table to see which way up it would fall.
The toast has been given more mass (and therefore the center of balance has shifted) making the buttered side heavier than the unbuttered side. When it falls gravity will make the heavier side "flip" over and land buttered side down.
And the law they refer to whin this "phenomena" occurs is often called Murphy's law (anything that can go wrong, it will). which is often confused with Finagle's Corollary, (also known as Sod's law). Although both "laws" refer to similar functions, Murphy's Law is more common in use than Sod's Law.
just one of those things it just does maybe cos of gravity
Like a cat.
because the side the butter is on is heavier so its because of the wieght.
sods law!
umm you people do realize that unless you had tons of butter, the change in center of gravity would be negligible. At least for me, The amount of mutter I put on toast would hardly make a difference. Even then, it would have to fall from pretty high to make the difference in center of gravity actually make a noticeable difference. I am quite confident that buttered toast does not fall butter side down any more often Thant butter side up. This is likely just a myth that came about because people notice more when things go badly than they do when they go well.
Because that side is heavier than the plain side.
Do not confuse yourself with buttered side being heavy, and gravity acting on it.
When the toast falls from a table or from our hip level, it flips once ( or a little more than one flip,in which case the edge hits the ground first and bounces back without completing the second flip.)
As we normally keep the buttered side up, when it does one flip,the buttered side falls down.
You may experiment with the following:-
1.Instead of flipping over or pushing the toast try to drop it horizontally.
2.Keep the buttered side down and then flip it over.
3.Increase the height of the fall ( try a range ).
4.increase the speed of the flip ( try a range ).
You will see that a toast does not always fall buttered side down.
If it falls butter side down, you must have buttered the wrong side.
It doesn't!
What we have here are two issues. Firstly the butter is denser than the bread and so changes the bread's centre of gravity hence increasing the chances of the bread landing butter side down.
Secondly: You will tend to remember it landing butter side down (because of the agro caused by it) more than landing butter side up.
Here something to think about.
If cats always land on their fee and toast always lands butter side down if you strapped a piece of buttered toast onto a cat would it just revolve in the air as the two competing forces try to put themselves in the correct position?
apparently its also to do with how hard you push squash the bread when u butter it making a concave shape so when it falls the bread spreads the air resistance around it
then theres the hole butter one side
SAYING THAT THO i have once dropped a slice which landed the oppostie way and iwas amazed
Toast has just as much chance of landing butter side up. Maybe to insure that your toast lands butter side up once in awhile ,press the butter knife firmly down on the toast while you spread your butter to create an indented surface which might cause your toast to flip over during its decent and land butter side up.
It helps to butter the floor before hand, then mop it up with the toast. Failing that, have wall to wall tables in your house.
due to the height of the table. its a coincidence really. the height of the table allows approximately one and a half turns of the falling object, in this case toast..
its always the last bit of bread too.
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