2007-03-04 07:21:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
If you take a particular duration ,say 5 minutes, the running man will get more wet than a walking man.This is something like a person running against a strong wind and another person walking against the same wind.The walking man will experience less air resistance whereas the running man will experience more air resistance.In other words the running man will encounter more winds.
2007-03-05 05:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, you get more wet if you stand in the rain. I'm assuming that you're talking about if you are trying to get to a dry place (like in a non-leaky building), should you walk or run to get there? It's obvious that everyone intuitively knows the answer: they RUN!
Imagine that it starts to rain and you are 100 meters from a dry building and that the rain is falling straight down at a steady rate. If you walk 1 meter / second you are exposed to the rain for 100 seconds. If you run 10 meters / second you are only exposed to the rain for 10 seconds -- 1/10th the time, therefore 1/10th the rain exposure. To exagerate the point, if you walk very sloooowly (say 0.1 meters / second) you would be exposed to the rain for 1000 seconds, 100 times longer than if you ran like a world-class sprinter. So obviously running will keep you drier.
2007-03-04 07:29:48 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has been scientifically tested and walking in the rain will get you wetter than running. According to Discover magazine, Alessandro De Angelis, a physicist at the University of Udine, Italy, calculated some years ago that "a sprinter racing along at 22.4 miles an hour does get less wet, but only 10 percent less wet, than a hasty stroller (6.7 miles an hour)." Conclusion: running isn't worth the trouble.
2007-03-04 07:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by torklugnutz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You actually get wetter when you run through the rain instead of walking. The TV show Mythbusters did a study on this and discovered you get more wet by running.
2007-03-04 07:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by crazydave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you get less wet than walking cuz ye spend less time in the rain. But you are colliding with more rain going faster horizontally, so maybe it evens out. I honestly always wondered about this.
2007-03-04 07:24:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ur gonna get wet either way
2007-03-04 14:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by TITANS FAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nooooooooooooooo
2007-03-04 07:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by Javier c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋