Ok if you are standing next to a railroad track and all the sudden a train whizzes by, will ur body be pulled toward the train, away from the train, go up, or be unaffected? PLEASE HELP ME!!
2006-11-14 14:27:31 · 8 answers · asked by lover. 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
ya. its on mythbusters tomorrow on the discovery channel, 9pm Pacific time. dunno what time zone your in. so u might as well watch the episode to find the right answer
***NO ITS NOT... ITS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE BEING PROJECTED INTO THE U.S....SORRY BOUT THAT*****
2006-11-14 15:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by Mike P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mythbusters (the Discovery Channel) is going to air an episode on this pretty soon, but based upon the previews, you would be blown away from the train if you were sufficiently low in mass. Simple fluid mechanics reveals that the leading end of the train creates an area of high pressure which then blows outward around the body of the cars. Conversely, an area of low pressure follows the trailing end of the train pulling air from beside the train behind it. However, if one is standing next to the rails when the train arrives, one will be already blown away by the leading end of the train and thus the trailing effects are irrelevant.
2006-11-14 22:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by hallmanjj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be pulled forwards
The movement creates a vacuum that will pull you towards the train on the first hit point but if not enough force to pull you right into the train then,
after the first hit point that sucks in words, it will stop that will cause you to sway back away from the train, then be unaffected by the train
2006-11-14 22:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Bullz_ eye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends if you are standing beside the tracks in the open air or in a tunnel. In a tunnel the air would be pushed ahead of the train and blow you first away from the track, as it passed and if it was going quite fast it could pull you into its vortice.
2006-11-14 22:58:57 · answer #4 · answered by madawaska01 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually you will niether move at all, get pushed AWAY from the train or move the same direction as the train. The Whole "You'll get sucked in" is only myth, but just for your general safety. Try to stay off the tracks. By me its illegal to be on tracks!
2006-11-14 22:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I can answer this; the answer is your body will be pulled the direction the train is going. The train exerts a force when it moves past you causing you to feel like you are being pulled along with it. Like for instance, if wind is blowing really hard during a storm and the direction the wind is blowing is north, you will feel like you are being pushed in that direction. I think it has to do with one of Newton's laws. An object in motion stays in motion....something like that.
Hope I helped.
2006-11-14 22:37:48 · answer #6 · answered by sleepy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need physics....Depends on the speed and distance you are from the tracks.
But in reality...yes you can be "sucked" into the train.
It's happened to people...it happened where I used to live...a cop was investigating a suicide by train and an amtrac "whizzed" by and he was pulled into the side of the train...he was killed.
I would guess it creates a vortex or whirlwind effect.
2006-11-14 22:39:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will be sucked under the tracks and die a horrible, mangled death. Moral of the story: don't stand next to railroad tracks.
2006-11-14 22:30:23 · answer #8 · answered by afreeman20035252 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋