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mussaa Saturday, October 23, 2010 03:42 PM

a small question of eds.
 
As we know that the earth is rotating at a very high angular velocity and as we are on the earth and also rotating with the same speed so the net speed we feel is zero.
Now suppose there is a car and a man standing on roof of the car.car is running.Now man is at rest with respect to the car,as is the case with a man standing on the surface of the earth.Now if the man on the roof of the car jumps upwards in the air the car will move forward and he will fell on the earth behind the car.It means he will not be on the same point where he was before the jump.Now if the man on the surface of the earth jumps in the air why he comes back on the same spot and the earth does not move away from him and he doesn't fell due to inertia ?

redmax Saturday, October 23, 2010 04:18 PM

Interesting
 
waiting for the explanations to come from old hands at physics.

zeeshan1001 Sunday, October 24, 2010 01:02 AM

A man who jumps over the car roof top will fall behind because of the force exerted by the air. While on the roof top one can balance himself to cut through the air but when the air friction will increase, as a result of a jump, this force will push him backward.

Since earth's gravitational force is greater and can keep both the air and the person intact with the earth's surface, the person is not thrown back.

Minhas1 Tuesday, November 09, 2010 02:53 PM

@ Musa
 
You are confusing the concept here.

1. In the 1st case person and earth are in question
2. In 2nd case person, car and earth are involved so no similarity.

Now, If in the first case a person jumps from the earth to some other heavenly body his location will be changed :)

abid ullah gul Tuesday, November 09, 2010 04:35 PM

Who said to you that the person will fall behind the car. He will definitely fall on top of the moving car on which he jumped.however there will be some effect of air resistance.

polaris Tuesday, November 09, 2010 05:40 PM

mr minhas has right concept...

there is term called relative spd... when one jumps frm earth he's jumping in relation to spd of earth n his own... these two spds resultantly bring him back to same point of origin.

in case of someone jumping from top of roof of car, phenomenon is little changd where one jumps in relation to spd of car, earth n his own... tht results for a guy to fall backward of the car...

now let me clear it otherway discarding earth's movement... wt happens to someone jumping inside of moving train or plane.. he returns to a point where he jumped frm.. wt hppns to fly flying inside of a moving train, it kps flying wth its spd n nvr collides wth the walls of train... now similarly if one jumps inside of car, instead of jumping from top of car/train/plane, he will fall exactly on same point where he startd frm.. in all these cases one jumps or moves wth direct relation to the movement of othr moving body.. bt when one jumps directly exposed to car/plane/train n earth... he will fall on a point tht will be resultant of all movements of all three bodies.. so in case of car above in question, the resultant is backward involving car's spd, man's spd, earth's spd n effect of wind to some extent..

hope it gvs some idea.. ciao

marycop Saturday, December 25, 2010 01:43 AM

there are certain things u r ignoring first of all the massive g with respect to the particular point from where the person is jumping in the latter case.

2nd the definite difference of air resistence that is present above the car.

3rd the very slow speed of the point of the earth.its like the concept of angular velocity.


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