Relativity and or Inertia?

Question

I was travelling in a taxi that was travelling at 70 mph however there were mosquitos inside the car flying around the car as if it were stationary. How is it that these mosquitos who were not connected to the car in anyway could fly at over 70 mph even when the car changes speed at stoplights etc. Please give me the facts behind the explanantion.

Answer 1

They were connected to the car. The atmosphere in the car was traveling at 70 mph along with the car. The mosquitos were traveling in that atmosphere. to prove it.. open the windows or try it in a convertible!

more relativity than inertia. The car was the mosquitos frame of reference.

By the way. do you think the atmosphere outside the car had velocity = zero??????

The earth has diameter about = 8,000 miles for a circumference about = 24,000 miles. Say it revolves 1 time every 24 hours, that's 24000 miles/24 hours or 1000 miles/hour.

if air appears to be stagnant on a nice calm day, it is really traveling at about 1000 mi/hours along with the surface of the earth. So is your mosquito. So where's the sonic boom?

about the acceleration/deceleration at stoplights.

The mosquito feels the same forces you do and compensates by flying. If the car took off fast enough, the mosquito would end up on the rear window. same as you are pushed back into your seat.

Answer 2

In a location such as a steadily moving railway carriage, a dropped ball would behave as it would if it were dropped in a stationary carriage. The ball would simply descend vertically. It is possible to ignore the motion of the carriage by defining it as an inertial frame. In a moving but non-accelerating frame, the ball behaves normally because the train and its contents continue to move at a constant velocity. Before being dropped, the ball was traveling with the train at the same speed, and the ball's inertia ensured that it continued to move in the same speed and direction as the train, even while dropping. Note that, here, it is inertia which ensured that, not its mass.

In an inertial frame all the observers in uniform (non-accelerating) motion will observe the same laws of physics. However observers in another inertial frames can make a simple, and intuitively obvious, transformation (the Galilean transformation), to convert their observations. Thus, an observer from outside the moving train could deduce that the dropped ball within the carriage fell vertically downwards.

However, in frames which are experiencing acceleration (non-inertial frames), objects appear to be affected by fictitious forces. For example, if the railway carriage was accelerating, the ball would not fall vertically within the carriage but would appear to an observer to be deflected because the carriage and the ball would not be traveling at the same speed while the ball was falling. Other examples of fictitious forces occur in rotating frames such as the earth. For example, a missile at the North Pole could be aimed directly at a location and fired southwards. An observer would see it apparently deflected away from its target by a force (the Coriolis force) but in reality the southerly target has moved because earth has rotated while the missile is in flight. Because the earth is rotating, a useful inertial frame of reference is defined by the stars, which only move imperceptibly during most observations.

In summary, the principle of inertia is intimately linked with the principles of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum.
In simple terms we can say that "In an isolated system, a body at rest will remain at rest and a body moving with constant velocity will continue to do so, unless disturbed by an unbalanced force

Answer 3

If they were the same mosquitos, they were either held in place, in the fluid of air, by peculiar air movements surrounding the air of the car. Also, the air pressure "very close" to the car will drop while the car is moving. This is kind of like how the shower curtain moves toward you rbody in the shower. This could also cause this.

Answer 4

mosquitos are in air not in car u n mosq dont share the same media u r in touch in continuation with car which is runnin at 70 but for mosquito its a simple environment in car inside as it would be ouside
its what i thik

Answer 5

Inertia.

Answer 6

See if your experiment has a different result with the windows open.