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Assuming a car is traveling at 100km/hr and there is a fly on the dashboard of the car, if the housefly attempts to fly , would it collide with the back glass of the car or it would move with the same velocity as the car thus being stationary.

Assuming the same situation in a plane traveling at 800km/hr ie 222m/s , would the fly collide with part of the plane .
 
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selseg said:
Assuming a car is traveling at 100km/hr and there is a fly on the dashboard of the car, if the housefly attempts to fly , would it collide with the back glass of the car or it would move with the same velocity as the car thus being stationary.

Assuming the same situation in a plane traveling at 800km/hr ie 222m/s , would the fly collide with part of the plane .

Ask yourself this.

When you fly on a plane, and you jump do you splat against the rear of the plane? Why do you think this is?
 


selseg said:
Assuming a car is traveling at 100km/hr and there is a fly on the dashboard of the car, if the housefly attempts to fly , would it collide with the back glass of the car or it would move with the same velocity as the car thus being stationary.

Assuming the same situation in a plane traveling at 800km/hr ie 222m/s , would the fly collide with part of the plane .

What do you think? This sounds a lot like schoolwork, and you are required to show some effort in solving schoolwork questions. What do you think will happen, and why?
 


xxChrisxx said:
When you fly on a plane, and you jump do you splat against the rear of the plane? Why do you think this is?
I actually tried that on a train when I was about five or six years old. I think I was a bit nervous before I jumped. :smile:
 


Fredrik said:
I actually tried that on a train when I was about five or six years old. I think I was a bit nervous before I jumped. :smile:

Yet you lived to tell the tale. Perhaps that indicates something to the OP :approve:
 


I used to ask myself this, then I read Newtons First Law :)
 


I've never asked myself this since I've been in a vehicle with a fly a number of times trying to get the pesky critters out the window.
 


This is not a homework question anyway its just one of those questions that keeps occurring to me but it seems I forgot Newtons first law of motion . Thanks