In an aeroplane,why doesnt anything dropped from someone gets left behind before hitting the floor of aeroplan

Question

as it should when aeroplane is flying at such a high speed?

Answer 1

laws of motion.

An object in motion remains in motion until a force acts upon it.

In the horizontal dimension, inside an aircraft, there is no force accelerating a dropped object toward the rear of the plane, so it lands on the floor right beneath where it was dropped.

Assuming of course that the plane is traveling at a constant speed in level stable fight.

Answer 2

It does not matter what speed the airplane is traveling... the reason is Inertia... everything in the plane has been accelerated up to the same speed... say 300 mph... so when you drop something it is still moving forward at the same speed as you.

unless...

If you drop something while the airplane is accelerating... the plane will not have as much influence on that object to accelerate it... because the only thing connecting them.. is the air that it is falling through.. but.. you ARE being accelerated at the same rate as the plane.. so your speed increases more than the object and it will fall behind you (or.. behind where it should have landed)

Another way to look at this... is the classical "Frame of Reference" problem... a man on a train.. inside of a boxcar.. he cannot see out.. but you can see in.. he is carrying a bowling ball.. and he drops it

from off of the train.. on the ground and standing still.. you see the train, the man, and the bowling ball all moving past you at the same speed.... the man sees everything standing still (remember he cannot see outside)

As you watch the bowling ball fall.. it travels downward at an angle (actually a curve.. because it is accelerating downward)..because it is still moving forward with the train and the man.. the man sees it as falling straight down.

Also note... there is a plane that flies for NASA or someone.. that flies in a "Zero G" curve.. so objects dropped.. don't even fall!!! hehe.. they just sit there in the air for the duration of the Zero G flight.. (but fall when the plane pulls up out of it)

Answer 3

Well, without getting in to any of the physics of it about the simplest answer I can give is this :

Both the person dropping the object and the object being dropped are traveling at the same rate of speed as the airplane, they're just being carried within it. If you were to drop that object out an open door or window however it would immediately begin to loose it's forward momentum as nothing would be propelling it any more and it would end up behind the plane.

Answer 4

Momentum.
Anything you are holding is traveling along at a few hunderd miles an hour--just like you and the airplane. If an airplanes engines stop running or propelling the airplane, does it immediately halt and drop straight down? No, it continues its forward motion until the engines start propelling it again or it hits the ground whichever comes first--hopefully, it's the egines getting restarted option. So, when you release a ball, or soda can or peanut, its initial speed relative to the ground gives it momentum. Relative to you it only has downward velocity since your frame of reference is also the plane. To someone on the ground if they could see it, it would fall in a forward (forward meaning the direction of the airplane's travel) arc.

Answer 5

For the same reason as you don't move westwards when you jump up in the air, even though the Earth is spinning from west to east; it's travelling at the same speed as the plane and keeps up with it. Newton's first law says an object moves in a straight line at constant speed unless acted on by a force. The only reason your car slows down and stops when you turn off the engine is because the force of friction acts on it.

Answer 6

The object- lets use a rum and coke drink for a passenger- has the same intrinsic velocity as the airplane, the passenger, the air in the plane and everything else. So the drunk trips, spills his rum and coke on a flight attendants dress- everything is moving at the same relative velocity. The Stewardress turns to slap the drunk- her hands already moving at the speed of the airplane, but because the drunks also at that speed she only succeeds in slapping him as hard as she can- its the relative difference between the speed of her muscles that actually strikes the drunk.

Answer 7

Everything inside the airplane is moving just as fast as the plane, and there is NO (resistant) wind inside the plane.

But, if you open the window or door, and drop that object outside the window or door, then as it falls, it will both drop and fall away behind you. This is because the air outside is not moving and the object will be slowed down due to the resistance provided by the NON-moving air.

Answer 8

The law of relativity. You and everything in the plane is going 600 MPH as compared to the surface of the earth. If you drive down the road in your car and throw a marble out the window. It will keep up with the car until the air slows it down or, until it hits something. This breaks down near the speed of light. If you were going near the speed of light and shot a gun the bullet would stand still in the air. As observed from the outside of the ship. Because time slows down for you (in the ship) . The bullet would look normal to you.

Answer 9

Because the object is going the same speed as the aereoplane. Only when the plane is accelerating at enough of a speed would you be able to see any change in the object's projected free fall.

Answer 10

Newton's 1st law of motion.

The plane is moving forward. So is everything in it. As you drop an object, it is still moving forward . It moves forward at the same rate as the plane, and so does the observer (you). Since you are moving at the same rate as the dropped object, it does not seem to move. Seen from the ground, though, it moves at the same speed as the plane.