If you spend the same amount of time in the rain, will you get wetter if you run or walk?

Answer 1

Check out the Myth Buster show. They proved the answer is run. One gets wetter if one runs in the rain!

Answer 2

I live in a very rainy place and have experienced that you get wetter when you run because not only do you get hit by the rain from above (which if you assume is falling at a contant rate over an area will be hitting you at the same rate no matter where you are) but you also run into drops which would have otherwise missed you had you been standing still - you get wet on the front of you as well of the top. The faster you move the more extra drops you collect.

Answer 3

If u run, u would get wetter. According to the Newton's law, when u run in the rain with a certain velocity, the rain will also come towards u at an angle, with the same speed.

Answer 4

If you spend the same amount of time in the rain, most of the time you will get more wet if you run. Given that the rain is falling striaght down, when you walk, rain hits you mostly on the top of the head, shoulders, and maybe some on your shins. However, when you run your body is at a slant and thus gives the rain the opportunity to soak you more. As you run, the rain that was suppose to hit the ground directly in front of you will not hit you in the chest. Also, you have longer strides when you run, thus your legs are spent less time under your body and thus more susceptible to getting wet.

Answer 5

obviously the right answer is to run because if you walk you are spending a lot more time in the rain then running. the more time the wetter you get

Answer 6

wetter if you walk..

to make it clear, consider the limiting cases of a walking speed of zero, and a running speed of infinity..

As an experiment.. go out during a rain and walk until you get soaked. Measure the distance at which point this occurs. Then run until you get soaked. Measure the distance to the soaking point. It should be farther; thus you collect less rain / unit distance running than walking.

Answer 7

No difference.

For those people saying that running will make you wetter in the front, you forget that you will get less wet on your back.

The way I know this is that I have a hatchback car with a rear windshield wiper. When I'm stopped I need to run the wiper. When moving more than about 30 mph, I can turn off the rear wiper and the rear windshield doesn't get wet.

Answer 8

If the time spend for both the cases are same then the amount of wet will be same. But who is running will experience rain as coming from an agle to him not as vertical. And even he can experience a force from rain which is proportional to his running speed.

Answer 9

The question is vague. What is the meaning of wetting? The question should be, "how much water you will recieve?"

Ther is no percentage of wetting. Suppose a man jumps into a pool of water and suddenly gets out. Another man also jumps but gets out latlely. Irrespective of time both are wetted.

If the rain just starts and if we have a hiding place near by and

if we can reach that place quickly before we are wet, naturally we will run to that place. If before we reach the place we are wet, then both walking or running, both will be the same.

Answer 10

I believe you will get wetter if you run.

The wider range of motion from running exposes a larger area of your body to the rain. You also have to account for perspiration.