2007-05-30 03:20:39 · 12 answers · asked by Penny J 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No, you can't avoid.
The reason is you are in the elevator. If the elevator speed is 30m/s, you will be pulled together with 30m/s. The more you jump, the higher impact you will suffer.
The safest way to avoid plunging death is to lay your body down on the floor, with all torsos (hands and feet) wide open. This is to that when you and the elevator hit the floor, the blood will flow equally. If you were standing when you hit the floor, you will suffer pelvic & leg bone crack(due to high impact), instant heart failure(blood is instantly sucked out of the heart), faint(due to large amount of blood sucked out from the brain) & legs swollen(high pressure on impact bursts the capillaries).
2007-05-30 06:11:53 · answer #1 · answered by high-lighter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see that would put 2-3 feet between you and a mass. Once you reached the height of your jump you would be again falling at a maximum rate and you would fall into the bottom of the elevator. Laying down on the floor of the elevator would be an approximation of a seat belt where some of the energy from the fall would be absorbed by the elevator itself. Allowing yourself 3 feet height to bash into the elevator floor only provides the energy damage of falling three feet PLUS the damage from the fall of the elevator. Sounds like minimally more damage to me.
2007-05-30 03:35:25 · answer #2 · answered by Orv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess that's why it's called the "Falling Elevator Lesson" not the "Hold a Board To Your Feet With Some Rope and Jump Off The Roof of a Barn Lesson".
2016-05-17 04:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. Your body will still be travelling the same speed as the falling elevator. When the impact occurs. (assumuing the primary, and secondary brakes completely fail.) you will be slammed violently to the floor regardless of you being in the air or on your feet.
2007-05-30 03:29:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL... youve been watching too much cartoons!!
you would have to jump up in the air at the terminal velocity of the elevator (probably 120mph... well thats based on the terminal velocity of a human).
so if you can jump straight up in the air at 120mph you could survive... Oh you want to know if you can jump at 120mph, heres how you can tell... Jump up in the air and if you come back down after 9 seconds youve survived the elevator crash ^_^
2007-05-30 03:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by dark_massiah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Its already been busted on Mythbusters. You would have to jump up at the same speed the elevator is falling to have any chance of survival. So unless you can jump up at a rate of about 50-80mph.......bye bye
2007-05-30 03:29:26 · answer #6 · answered by svenbbg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think that as heavy and an elevator is, that once it does hit bottom, that it would just crumple up, like an accordian. So regardless if you did just happen to know the correct timing of impact and jumped, I don't think it would matter.
2007-05-30 03:29:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are still falling at the same rate as the elevator.
2007-05-30 03:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by aerman01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO U would be better off to lay flat on your back in the floor. That way u would have the impact over your entire body.
2007-05-30 08:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word, no.
Even if you jump, you're still falling at (say) 100 mph. The jump might make it 99, but that sudden stop is still gonna sting. :)
2007-05-30 03:30:20 · answer #10 · answered by pob14 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋