This is just me being curious...
If you were in your car going 70 MPH with the windows up, no air resistance and there was a lady bug sitting inside of your car in the back seat. In order for it to fly from the back seat of your car to the front seat would it have to fly faster then 70 MPH???
Now, I know that if it was something such as a grasshopper, and it was in the moving car and wanted to hop up front it would already be moving at the same speed as the car and would have the same initial velocity as the car, plus the additional velocity provided by its legs, and would make it to the front seat.
If the same is true for the lady bug then what is the difference between, the car scenario, and a lady bug flying down the high way at 70 MPH with a bubble around it??
At what point in flight would the lady bug loose the initial velocity gained by the movement of the car and get sucked to the back seat????
Can bugs fly 70 MPH? I don't know the answer, but we've all seen it happen.
2007-05-03
20:41:26
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