if you jump up when inside a moving train how come you land in the same place?

Answer 1

Never was too hot on physics, any scientists can correct the subtext of my answer later on.
If the train you are travelling on is moving at 60 mph, i.e. a mile a minute, then everything being pulled by the locomotive will move at the same speed. Although you don`t realise it, even when you are sitting on a seat on the train, there are forces at work dragging you along at 60 mph. Therfore when you jump up, you are jumping up at 60 mph, but everything inside the train is also moving at 60 mph, therefore you land back in the same spot, inside the train! However, assuming that you were airborne for 2 seconds, the train will have moved forward by 1/30th of a mile in those 2 seconds and so will you, so you aren`t actually landing in the same place as the spot you took of from.

Answer 2

You will land ever so slightly off from the point where you jumped, but in basically the same place. It's because you're being carried along with the same momentum as the train, and you won't be in the air long enough for the train to move away from you.

Answer 3

Your Inertia is the same as the train. You are both moving. However if you jump from the outside of a moving train and are able to get in the air inside the train it would move under you.

Answer 4

You're travelling at the same speed as the train. Why do you land in the same place when you jump in your yard, after all the earth is moving faster than the train?

Answer 5

Inertia, doofus.
you and the train are both moving forward together. Then you jump and you are still moving forward (though in the air), while the train is moving forward around you and under your feet. Then you land.
If you could jump high enough, you wouldn't land in the same place, but rather a little farther back b/c you don't move exactly as fast as the train when you are in the air. (The train is continually getting energy to move forward, but you would be losing energy in the air.)

Answer 6

Because you are moving forwards at the same speed as the train as you start to jump.

If the train accelerates or decelerates, obviously you will land in a different place, except that the air in the train is being dragged along with it and is in turn exerting forces on you.

Answer 7

yes u do because as the train moves your body is moving at the same speed as the train is, as a result when u jump inside a train u are already moving at the same time at the same speed so u do not fall

Answer 8

You are moving the same speed as the train, and there's no resistance to keep you from moving forward. It's similar to the idea of jumping up on an elevator -- you're still going down...

Answer 9

Of course you mean same place in relation to the train... In fact you don't, you land slightly behind where you jumped from, assuming you jumped vertically.

Answer 10

Inertia will cause you to travel the same speed as the train. You will come down in the same place on the train, but not on the earth.