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john gault
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You are in a hot air baloon at 1,000 feet altitude with you, a pilot and a bungee cord with one end attached to your leg and the other end attached to the basket of the balloon. You have found a point of absolute neutral bouyancy and there is no wind or any other change in the environment from now on. You then jump out of the balloon with the bungee cord attached and fall as in any other bungee jump (until the cord stretches taut, you "bottom out", bounce back, fall again, etc.).
Once you are slack, hanging still by the ankle 50 below the basket, is the balloon higher, lower or at the same 1,000 foot altitude you were before jumping? Assume the bungee cord weighs 20 lbs and you weigh 180 lbs.
-JG
Once you are slack, hanging still by the ankle 50 below the basket, is the balloon higher, lower or at the same 1,000 foot altitude you were before jumping? Assume the bungee cord weighs 20 lbs and you weigh 180 lbs.
-JG