and if I was to jump right before I hit the ground will i:
a) survive
b) die a second after everyone else
c) die a second before everyone else
d) die at the same time as everyone else
*** I don't plan to get stuck in a falling elevator BTW ***
2006-09-22 08:03:48 · 12 answers · asked by chapped lips 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
A little simple math:
You are falling at 32ft/sec/sec (not taking into account the friction of the materials involved.) Depending on the height of the fall let's assume when you are fifteen feet from the bottom you are traveling at 100 feet per second. If you jump at the right time (how you would know this inside a sealed elevator is another variable not considered) you would jump up at about 2 feet per second. Therefore your net falling speed would be 98 feet per second. You will be killed a millisecond after everyone else.
2006-09-22 08:16:11 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Curious 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only way to survive would be to jump such that you instantaneously achieve the same velocity (or very close) as the elevator car, only in the opposite direction (assuming you jump at the exact instant the car hits the bottom). Of course if you managed that, your body would either be crushed against the ceiling of the car, or pass through it. Assuming you pass through it, you would fly up a certain distance, then fall back down. Between the ceiling, the 2nd fall, and the incredible forces required to accelerate you to whatever speed it would be instaneously you would die.
2006-09-22 08:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by czimme3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-15 12:29:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was really excited at the prospect of your experiment until I read the last line! You will be traveling at the same rate of speed as the elevator, so unless you can dissipate that kinetic energy somehow, you will be injured when you impact with an object.
It would not kill those in the elevator, but they will not be in the best of moods either.
2006-09-22 08:25:03 · answer #4 · answered by RHJ Cortez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would go through the roof or be crushed by the roof
literally.
YOu havent reached terminal velocity and the elevator is MUCH heaver than you
come on you got in to SC right, you should know this
2006-09-22 08:05:40 · answer #5 · answered by Xae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carry tissues.
2006-09-22 08:11:26 · answer #6 · answered by L S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unless you can jump faster than the rate you are falling, youre dead
mythbusters did this..
2006-09-22 08:12:27 · answer #7 · answered by jasonalwaysready 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
die atr the same time
2006-09-22 08:10:57 · answer #8 · answered by The Foosaaaah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(a). only if you knew the exact time when you were going to hit the bottom.
2006-09-22 08:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by Casey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you are so right XAE. I am with you 100%.
2006-09-22 08:14:41 · answer #10 · answered by Saul S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋