Could a Gold Box get you KILLED?

[AN_602 280]

Hello tankers!

This is a piece of a small and dumb question, which, if you're a nerdy tanki player, such as myself, might actually find interesting.

So, as you probably know, gold boxes are randomly dropped based on the battle funds. And when it happens, all the players start piling up on top of another (great timing for stealing the flag or capture some points as well). But when everyone's into the gold box frenzy, would it REALLY be good for your tank to have a giant weight falling on top of it? I mean, gold is pretty dense, and for something as big as a gold box, which is the same size as a supply box, is going to be heavy.

 

So first of all, before answering this question, there are several questions that should be asked:

1. How big is a gold box?

2. How fast is it falling?

 

To start with, since supply boxes are cubic, their volume could be calculated easily, by raising one of its sides to the power of 3. The density of gold is known (19.3 kg/per liter, according to Wikipedia), and therefore, once calculating the box's volume, it would be easy to know its mass.

 

Tanki doesn't really have objects which allow you to calculate distances easily, which is a barrier of some sort. However, we might be able to escape this obstacle using doors (literally). According to this webpage, the height of most standard doors is 2.04 meters (6.693 foot), whcih allows us to compare between the width of a typical supply box in the game with the height of an ordinary door, which isn't too hard to do, since there are doors and boxes all around the game. Another way to get a distance is to drive, multiply your speed by the time it takes you to move from point A to B, and you get the distance- which should be more accurate. So i took my Mammoth M0, which has the speed of 3.1176 meters per seconds, and measured the time it take me to go from one end to the other at top speed. Because i've been told in science classes that it's always important to repeat your experiment, i've measured it 10 times, and the average speed that i got is 0.583 seconds. So according to the equation of Time * Speed = Distance, it turns out that the width of a box is 0.6515608 meters.

 

That's great! Now we can find the volume of the box and its mass! Ok, so lets see: 0.651560 to the power of 3 gives 0.27661 cubic meters, and if you multiply it by the density of gold, you get about 5.3385 tons- WAY more than what your tank weighs! Just for comparison, the weight of the fuel of some of the modern tanks is about a fifth of that. So things do seem a bit gloomy as a gold box starts blocking the sun. So if this block does land on your tank, even though tanks are generally heavy, it is still a significant weight difference. For the M1 Abrams, for instance, this difference means 8.9% more mass, and for lighter tanks, such as the T-72 (which you gotta admit- it does look a lot like Viking..) can mean a mass increase as high as12.6%. Now, i was unable to find any reference for a maximum weight of tanks of any sort, but the extra weight will sure slow your tank down, which is bad news.

But weight! wait! In the tanki world we have tanks as well, and the garage specifies their mass! But if you take a closer look, things get even worse, since the only tank that is heavier thank 5.3385 tons is an upgraded Mammoth M3 (if the weight units are in kilograms, of course).

 

But we're not done here yet. The extra weight by itself, if won't smash your tank, could still cause some damage when colliding with your tank. It's been a while since i learned physics, but i was able to find a converter that will do it for me. So it takes about 13 seconds for a box to drop. Now i've found another issue- i have no clue how fast a gold box is falling, so i assumed that it's 2 meters pers seconds. So the output read 10677 joules, which is about a fourth of the energy released by the combustion of 1 gram gasoline- not much, to be honest- it seems like this parachute does its work well. So perhaps, after all, next time you see a gold box, it wouldn't harm to take a chance and get it. So (ive always wanted to say this) MYTH: BUSTED.

 

So yeah, i'm not an expert in physics, but i just had this thought during a battle today, and thought it's good enough for further testings. I won't be surprised if i made some mistakes in the calculations, but it sure was fun. So next time you guys hear the gold box alarm, good luck!  :)

[the_blue 25]

Too smart for me..

I started reading then my brain over heated..

Edited June 28, 2015 by the_blue

[Maf 32,309]

ERMAHGERD, just accept the fact that Tanki Physics are different from real life physics. In Tanki gold is weightless and so are tanks, while energy and momentum are created from thin air.  :D

 

Interesting article though.

[Maf 32,309]

By the way, there's a much simpler way to measure the size of the gold box:

 

 

All maps are made up of squares called "props". Each square is 5 by 5 metres long and you can clearly see on the image above that the bridge is made up of 2-prop sections. From the picture you can see that the gold box is about 1/3 of the length of the prop, therefore the gold box is 4.63 cubic metres.

 

The width of the box is 1.67 metres, not 0.65

 

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(if the weight units are in kilograms, of course).

Err, no. The weight units are simply relative units used in coding the game. They have no reference to real life units.

 

 

But we're not done here yet. The extra weight by itself, if won't smash your tank, could still cause some damage when colliding with your tank. It's been a while since i learned physics, but i was able to find a converter that will do it for me. So it takes about 13 seconds for a box to drop. Now i've found another issue- i have no clue how fast a gold box is falling, so i assumed that it's 2 meters pers seconds. So the output read 10677 joules, which is about a fourth of the energy released by the combustion of 1 gram gasoline- not much, to be honest- it seems like this parachute does its work well. So perhaps, after all, next time you see a gold box, it wouldn't harm to take a chance and get it. So (ive always wanted to say this) MYTH: BUSTED.

You make too many assumptions. If you really want to find the damage done to the tank, you need to calculate the momentum of the falling box and find out the resistance of steel plates used on tanks to see what kind of damage they can put up with. Unless you have that, any conclusions will be unreliable.

 

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You could go a step further and try and calculate the actual weight of the Gold Box (what if it's partially hollow?!) by using the speed of its decent and the area of the parachute. The Gold Box falls at constant speed, i.e. at terminal velocity, so you could find the upward air resistance from the area of the box and parachute and use the answer to find out the weight of the box using the formula F=ma and other SUVAT equations.

 

 

Exams are over. I need to get a life...

 

[deadtoyou 2,502]

It's a game. I personally don't care how fast Gold Boxes fall.....as long as they fall on top of me. :D

[GHOST68INVINCIBLE 152]

Damn this physics is a little bit complicated and another question how the hell can a tank which weighs like a ton do parkour?

[genak138 950]

It's a game. I personally don't care how fast Gold Boxes fall.....as long as they fall on top of me. :D

I don't even care if they fall on top of me. So long as Tanki realizes that it fell on top of me and doesn't make it slip through to get to whoever's on bottom <_<

[LeIouch_Vi_Britannia 6,163]

I don't even care if they fall on top of me. So long as Tanki realizes that it fell on top of me and doesn't make it slip through to get to whoever's on bottom <_<

True dat^

[Papaya14 481]

and another question how the hell can a tank which weighs like a ton do parkour?

[DarkOperative 5,580]

It's a virtual thing in a virtual world, people. 

[toanuparu_GT 7]

Dude it's summer don't make me think.

[GHOST68INVINCIBLE 152]

Laughed on the picture u posted "papaya14"