yeah I don't quite get what you mean. I sort of thought of it as like a man running on a treadmill, and assuming that the man runs at a constant rate of 8mph and the treadmill is at 8mph also, then the man will stay stationary. But since this is an airplane, and there's no foward momentum...then...
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I wasn't really sure where this would go, and it seemed most sensable to place this question here since it wasn't a homework problem, just a random critical thinking problem. And with the anwser, could you also give a good explanation and proof.
A plane is sitting stationary on a...