why is the speed of a bee in a moving car higher than that of the car?

Question

When there is a bee in a moving car ,we find that it can move from the back to the front of the car.May be if literally seen we can say that it moves at a speed higher than the car,,,,,,,,,,,,why?

Answer 1

The measurement of speed depends on the point of view. In your example, you have three points of view to consider. Looking at the bee in the car from:
1. A point from outside the car.
2. A point from inside the car.
3. From the bee's point of view.

In (1) the speed of the bee is relative to the ground. It is the speed of the car plus or minus the speed of the bee depending on the bee's direction of flight. It may be higher or lower than the speed of the car.

In (2) the speed of the bee is constant, with a changing vector, more toward or away from the point of view.

In (3) the speed is constant and the direction is always forward.

;-D Just don't make that bee angry if you are in the car with it! Open the window and let it out ASAP!

Answer 2

As long as the car is moving at the same speed without accelerating or slowing down. There is no experiment that you can do inside the car to prove that it is in motion, it has the same physics as if it was not moving at all. Lets say the car is traveling at 65mph. The reason the bee can freely move back and forth is because the air inside the car is also traveling at 65mph.

Answer 3

To answer this question, you must look at it from two different perspectives. If you are inside the car, the car doesn't appear to be moving, but the bee would. If you are outside the car, the car appears to be moving, and if you were able to see the bee inside, you would see that it is moving faster than the car. It's the same physics principle that says that if you have a train (unreal situation) moving at 1000 meters per second west, and you stand at the front of the train facing towards the back with all the doors open, and shoot a bullet from the gun at 1000 meters per second, you would see the bullet move away from you at 1000 meters per second, but from someone along side the train looking at it, the train would pass by, and the bullet would seem to be suspended in the air in the exact same position, not appearing to be moving.

Answer 4

If you shoot a gun out of a car window in the direction the car is moving at 500 mph, the bullet is moving at say 500 mph + the speed of the car (let's say 50 mph) = 550 mph. What's odd, if you shine a beam of light in the same direction of the car, the light will travel 186,000 miles per second, but will not add the speed of the car. Nothing can go faster than the speed of light.

Answer 5

Because speed is relative to the observer.

Answer 6

because their velocities add up