if a fly is in a car that is going 70mph and flys to the front of the car is the fly flying faster than the ca

Answer 1

yes...so u must be driving a 4-banger...drive a v8 and they get stuck to the back window ;)

Answer 2

Everything is relative.

Relative to the car, the fly, simply, moves within it and the air inside the vehicle. Relative to the car, the seats, the windows, the passengers, even the air does not move while the fly moves freely in any direction. Let's say, 5 mph.

Relative to the ground over which the vehicle travels, the the fly, moving from the back to the front of the car, is traveling faster than the car. If the car is traveling at 50 mph, the fly, going forward is traveling at 55 mph, relative to the ground. If the fly moves from the front to the rear, it travels at 45, relative to the ground, but, still, only 5 mph, according to observers in the same car.

But, let's complicate things a bit. If the car is moving 50 mph along the highway, and another car approaches, from the other direction, also going 50 mph, either car can be said to be traveling at a speed of 100 mph, relative to the other. Depending on which direction the fly moves, it could be said to be traveling as much as 105 mph, or as little as 95. But a fly can't do 105 mph, so, what happens?

Answer 3

Theoretically if a fly was to do that there are two answers

Firstly if you take a radar gun in the car it would just show the speed of the fly do to the fact that you are moving at a consistent speed with the fly
Or
If you sat at a distance and in fact had a measuring device that would be able to pick up the fly then yes the fly would be moving faster than the car

Answer 4

Yes, everything attached to the car is moving at the same speed. So if the fly is moving forward in the car, then the fly is moving faster than the car.

Answer 5

If the fly's velocity is frequently 2 km/h, and he travels from the lower back of the automobile to the front, then the fly is vacationing at 102 km/h RELATIVE TO the outdoors worldwide. in spite of the undeniable fact that he's only vacationing at 2 km/h RELATIVE TO the automobile. in spite of the undeniable fact that, maximum of that velocity is via his inertia, that's imparted onto him by using the shifting automobile. He has a relative velocity whilst he takes off, and he maintains that velocity on an identical time as he flies. for an identical reason, once you're vacationing in a bus, and you bounce up in the air, the bus does no longer flow out from below you, inflicting you to smack into the rear of the bus. on your little while in the air, you shelter the forward velocity which you had on an identical time as your ft have been touching the bus floor.

Answer 6

No. In the time it takes the fly to travel from the back seat to the front, the car will have traveled 48.6142512 feet.

Answer 7

Cars don't fly. They drive.

Answer 8

I AM GOING OUT ON A LIMB AND SAYING THAT A CAR CANNOT FLY.

Answer 9

the fly would be if it was outside

Answer 10

Have U ever been in a air plane?