So if I was producing a ring of wind around me, like about the size of a volkswagon beetle and in the shape of a donut. How high would the wind speed need to be to pulverize a plastic chair?
Depends on the chair. Realistically, the chair gets launched into the air at high speed and gets pulverized when it hits something, not directly by the wind.
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The wind would have to be so fast that it couldn't overcome the chair's inertia before the force of it caused the chair to collapse on itself rather than move as a whole. There's no natural wind fast enough to do that to something as light as a plastic chair.
Perhaps you could define the wind "doughnut" as made of successive layers of current rotating in opposite directions, so something caught between layers would be pulled apart.
I assume this is a reference to the Hurricane power. For which the scientific answer is "it's a superpower. No speed of wind will actually work the way Hurricane works".
Perhaps you could define the wind "doughnut" as made of successive layers of current rotating in opposite directions, so something caught between layers would be pulled apart.
So if I was producing a ring of wind around me, like about the size of a volkswagon beetle and in the shape of a donut. How high would the wind speed need to be to pulverize a plastic chair?
To snag it and hurl it against the something to smash it, about 100 MPH. To tear it apart into chunks faster than it could get hurled, something like 400 MPH. To literally pulverize it into tiny pieces, oof, I'd have to guesstimate something like 14,000 MPH.
Note that we are ignoring lots of side effects of high speed spinning wind, but it is a super-power, so we can do that.
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Well yeah if it's a super power then it makes sense that you can localize the effects just to the ring of wind. Like, I'm super powering the air in the ring to spin, and at the same time I'm super powering the air outside of it to not get effected.
Would wind moving at 14000mph cause a sonic boom? O_o
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Speaking of tornadoes, here's a video from the Weather Channel, with Jim Cantore having a little fun with the whole simulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cODBQqaGTw
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Perhaps you could define the wind "doughnut" as made of successive layers of current rotating in opposite directions, so something caught between layers would be pulled apart.
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To snag it and hurl it against the something to smash it, about 100 MPH. To tear it apart into chunks faster than it could get hurled, something like 400 MPH. To literally pulverize it into tiny pieces, oof, I'd have to guesstimate something like 14,000 MPH.
Note that we are ignoring lots of side effects of high speed spinning wind, but it is a super-power, so we can do that.
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Would wind moving at 14000mph cause a sonic boom? O_o
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