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Airplane and motion physics,?
If you jump while inside a moving airplane, will you come down at the same place where you initiated your jump regardless of the speed the airplane has? What about the same situation, but this time you are riding the airplane on top of it. (Imagining this would be possible) and you jump, what would happen in both scenarios?
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- kuiperbelt2003Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
if you are inside the plane, you have the same forward speed as the plane, so that if you jump up, you maintain your forward speed...unless the plane changes its speed while you are in the air, you will land at the same point you were (assuming a vertical leap)
if you did this while on the plane, you would also have the plane's forward speed while on top of the plane, however, now when you jump up, you will experience significant frictional forces with the atmosphere which will slow your forward speed, and you will not land where you started...so for this and many other reasons, probably not a good idea to try this one on top of a plane
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Inside the plane you will be travelling at the same velocity as the aircraft. Assuming the aircraft does not change its speed while your feet are off the ground, and that your jump is perfectly vertical, you will land back in the same spot.
Outside the aircraft however, depending on the speed, you will be moved significantly from the wind resistance working against you. Even at a speed that is low for an aircraft, you will most likely be blown off the back of the plane.
