If a helicopter is taken in air, at its highest level it can reach, and made to stand stable for more than 24 hrs at that point only, and taken down after 24 hrs, WILL IT LAND ON SAME PLACE FROM WHERE IT WAS EARLIER???
2007-05-25 16:21:50 · 6 answers · asked by ishwar 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Of course. The helicopter rotates with the Earth (because of inertia - it was rotating with the Earth when it was on the ground) and the momentum of the air which is rotating with the Earth too.
2007-05-25 16:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Irrespective of the physics, it takes so many corrections to keep a helicopter in position that it will go whereever the pilot takes it.
This is about like asking: If a car is started on a long straight road, what are the odds it can be aimed accurately enough not to drive 5 miles and not go off the road? The answer is that a car is constantly corrected by the driver and thus does not run off the road.
2007-05-26 00:20:58 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at 24 hours? yeah because even if the earth would rotate away from the helicopter's original position after 24 hours it would come right back under it.
2007-05-26 00:28:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real problem with this question is that you don't define what is meant by "stand stable". Stable with respect to what? You need a reference point!
If you have it be stable with respect to horizontal distance from the takeoff site, then by definition it will land back on that landing site.
2007-05-26 01:02:36 · answer #4 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole universe is moving, and nothing is ever in the same place it was a second ago.
2007-05-25 23:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, good?.........
2007-05-26 00:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by aulona37 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋