2007-06-23 06:04:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
You are exactly right! The bug would go splat against the back window if there as not air in the car. Imagine a pitcher throwing a slow-ball that goes only 60 mph. Now imagine if he threw a fly at the same speed. The fly is so light compaired to its surface area that air drag would slow it down before it went very far. Air drag prevents the splat. If someone threw a brick through the open side window of a car moving at 60mph it would splat against the back window.
2007-06-23 06:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like you are riding in the car or a pet is with you riding
in the car. The only time anything will go splat against the window, is if and when one breaks hard or short and/or crashes. Force of gravity going 60 mph into something that is solid is an impact of 60 mph inside the car. Meaning your head, the bug and pet go into windshield. (that's when seat belts save lives) and if another car hits you going 30 head on its a 90 mph impact. Ouch! :) So even if your going 15 mph and the car hits you head on going 25 mph, that is a 40 mph impact. Just remember driving slow doesn't always protect you from not being injured in a unfortunate accident, but the seat belts and air bags will save one from being ejected or seriously injured. Thats my theory and I am sticking to it. :)
2007-06-23 06:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by queenofsiberia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a bug flies into a window of a car going 60 mph then the bug was obviously going about 60 mph too.
2007-06-23 06:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's not how moving objects work. If you ride a 60 mph train and drop an apple, it doesn't go flying into the person behind you does it? No, it drops to the floor like anywhere else. A fly is much the same.
2007-06-23 06:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by chess19902000 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because once it's in the car it is also traveling at 60 mph in the same direction as everything else in the car.
2007-06-23 06:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by Dee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it has something to do with intertia or velocity. Like when the bug is in the car, it's going the same speed as everything else in the car.
2007-06-23 09:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by meric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physics! Now since it is caught in the air that is moving into the car the turbulence that is there basically holds the fly and keeps it moving with the flow!
2007-06-23 06:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by mrjamfy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Dee" is correct. The velocity changes. Sometimes I feel like the bug and sometimes I feel like the windshield.
2007-06-23 06:15:39 · answer #8 · answered by chilicooker_mkb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i just dont know...
2007-06-23 06:43:25 · answer #9 · answered by skateboardboi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋