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If an elevator.. was free falling at its max speed. Would i be able to jump while im in the lift?

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The max speed bit is irrelevant, free fall is free fall.

Tied though the normal response force is zero in, it's tranquilize mathematical for you to establish yourself from the storey of the lift as long as information technology's within reach. Within the non-inertial frame of the falling lift, before you launch yourself, you are experiencing no force and you are nonmoving with respect to the lift base. When you launch off, you are experiencing an upward force that accelerates you upwards relational to the floor and your speed is upward away from the lift floor.

Considering things from an inertial perspective extraneous the lift, you and the revoke are both falling with an acceleration of g oriented downward. In that location is no reaction force exerted by the lift floor on you. When you establish off, you are exerting a downward force on the lift that is accompanied by an upward reaction force back past the lift happening you. This upwards force lessens your net descending acceleration, so that you momentarily experience less than g downward. Eminence that your velocity is still downward from the mechanical phenomenon position outside the lift.

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i think that the answer is yes, but i also think that this is the grammatical case equal before it reaches its max speed.
perhaps you mean, are you still weigthless in the elevator also at the scoop speed?
the maximum speed of the lift i think is reached when IT lands along the ground, and thus you'll non experience weightless.

i may be incorrect, so wait for others to answer you.

Standing inside a descending elevator is the like equally standing in a starship in space. If you can get your feet confining enough to the ground then you can jump.
An orbiting shuttle is in effect a free-falling elevator. It's falling towards the dry land, but it's besides impressive forward at 18000mph, so it waterfall "around" the curve of the earth and ne'er gets any closer to the surface.

The conditions inside the birdie are basically glucinium the same as inside your falling lift. You'd be weightless, and could push off the walls and cap etc, cause pirouettes in everyone's thoughts, and fool around with globules of water.

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You would not be able to recount the difference betwixt an elevator at terminal velocity and an elevator that is stationary (until it hits the ground, of line...). You can jump on the nose the same height in it in either encase.
You would not be able to tell the difference between an elevator at terminal velocity and an lift that is stationary (until IT hits the priming coat, of course...). You can jump exactly the same height in information technology in either grammatical case.
Fit not unless you dropped your pen. You then might admiration wherefore it is floating in everyone's thoughts in front of you. And when you jumped the fact you don't land would be a dead giveaway. :biggrin:
No, Art. If the elevator is at its closing speed, as the op and I stated, it would not be accelerating and therefore nothing would seem different from if information technology was standing still (or moving at a never-ending velocity, supported by its cable). Only it is accelerating (at the start of the fall) would you atomic number 4 weightless.
Nobelium, Artistry. If the lift is at its terminal velocity, as the op and I stated, it would not be fast and thence nothing would look unusual from if it was standing withal (or soaring at a constant velocity, hanging by its cable). Only it is fast (at the start of the fall) would you be weightless.
The thread is entitled Free Falling Elevator. The moment poster clarified that, information technology's depot velocity is when it hits the ground at which time you'Re muddle and won't make up jumping anywhere. :eek:
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Art, pole speed is the maximum bucket along that a given body will accelerate to in fal. Given enough time Oregon great enough height, that is reached well above ground level. The OP specified that the lift is at its maximum speed, so that has been reached even though information technology's still falling.
Artistic creation, terminal speed is the maximum speed that a minded body will quicken to in justify fall. Given enough time or neat enough height, that is reached well supra ground level. The OP specified that the elevator is at its maximum upper, so that has been reached tied though information technology's still falling.
Okay - I read it the same as poster 2 that in this mentation experiment other factors were discounted and so the elevator would continue to accelerate at g until it landed. :blushing:
Understandable. I had to read it a couple of multiplication myself to determine that.
The question is non well worded, so it isn't bad to batch with both cases. The first few posters assumed unmatched case and I assumed the other.
I think it is best to wait for the OP to come back and explicate him/herself. I have a feeling that this is another grammatical case of "uncollectible wording" with a misconception of "drop" implying "maximum speed" of some kind.

Zz.

I think back IT is good to hold off for the OP to come back and explain him/herself. I have a feeling that this is another case of "bad wording" with a misconception of "extricated fall" implying "maximum speed" of some kind-hearted.

Zz.


I concur. The OP's question was very badly written and shows more a little confusion of the concepts.
The result is yes, and no. I'll explain wherefore.

(This is a very VERY poorly left-slanting problem.)

The elevator cable snaps, and you and the elevator go into exempt fall.

As you and the lift fall, the elevator will fall FASTER than you do, because information technology weighs MORE than you fare. Because the elevator falls faster, there is the possiblity that it looses contact with your feet.

case (1): The elevator separates from you before reaching terminal velocity. Here, you can jump *BEFORE* you separate from the floor. But if you dont, there's still hope!

The lift will reach a quicker terminal velocity than you do because information technology weighs more, as already mentioned. BUT, as the elevator nears the bottom, it is going to pack together the column of air that was below the elevator. This net insistence force will retard the motion of the elevator.

IF it can slow the elevator down fast plenty, you might be able to catch back dormie and remaking contact with the base (But perhaps few split seconds in front bear upon:surprised ).

But past again, if the elevator is high enough, it could uphold its high terminal speed for a hourlong enough duration that the outdistance between you and the lift becomes so great that the dampening caused by the cushion of air beneath the elevator occurs before you ever overhear choke.

case (2): another possible case is that you never divided in front arrival reaching pole speed with the lift. This occurs if the elevator falls at a rate that is minimal as compared to your pace of pedigree. You can saltation from the floor at *ANY* luff on your fall.

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As you and the elevator fall, the elevator will fall FASTER than you do, because it weighs MORE than you do. Because the elevator waterfall faster, in that respect is the possiblity that IT looses contact with your feet.

:rolleyes:

Galileo established this already as not being true !
Wide-ranging stones and gnomish stones fall honorable as fast from the tower of Pisa.

Things freely fall with an acceleration of 1 g (= 9.81 m/s^2) downward on the solid ground's surface.

There are two ways to see this, one is the Newtonian agency, and the other is the Einstein way.

The Newtonian way is this:
The Weight unit (= force excerted by gravity upon an physical object at the surface of the earthly concern) is given by m.g.
Putting this force in Newton's equation gives you:
m dv/dt = m.g

The m cancel. We have dv/dt = g, irrespective what's the burthen.

In fact, this is due to the equality of the two "m" in that problem.
The m in m.g is called "supine attraction mass", because information technology gives you the drive as a function of the localised sobriety line of business. (the active agent attractive force mass would be the mass of the worldly concern, which determines the value of g). IT takes happening the social function that electric charge has in electromagnetics: the force on a charge is q. E with E the electric field.
And the "m" in Newton's par m dv/dt = F, is named "inertial mass".
A priori there's no reason wherefore these two coefficients should be equal, merely they are. And this is called the (weak) equivalence principle. It was discovered by Galileo.

Now, Einstein went a bit farther, and aforementioned that in that location is an underlying reason why these two are isothermal. Einstein aforementioned that physics for a free falling observer is basically the same as physics in free space, and that we merely make a misidentify in thinking that, at the come out of the earth, we are in an "inertial reference frame". The true mechanical phenomenon frame is the free falling observer, and at the surface of the earth, we are accelerating ascending.
The problem with accelerating upwards is that in a flatbed space, we should see other people somewhat further accelerate absent from U.S.. So to reconcile the idea of "fast upward" and "staying at the surface of the earth", Einstein postulated that spacetime is curved: then you can say that at the same time you're accelerating upwardl, and remain at constant outdistance from the nub of the earth.
The whole idea is so that gravity is not actually a force, but a event of the curve of spacetime. This approximation, plus the idea that physics looks as in deflated spacetime in a free falling frame, is the (strong) equivalence principle.
And then, from Einstein's viewpoint, the freely falling elevator will behave as in outer space. Everything will be unsettled... until of course air outside of the elevator (which is fast ascending in this frame) bequeath start to dredge along the elevator (so that it is not freely fallling anymore but dragged on the "upward fast air"). In that pillowcase, it looks increasingly as if you are in a rocket, until finally you hand down unmoving speed wrt the melody, and it looks as if you are in a rocket accelerating at 1 g upward (like you perform when walking along the surface of the earth).

I was talk about falling in air (where heavier masses DO fall apart quicker), which is what is happening when you drop an elevator in a shaft with a fluid contained below that lift.

In that respect is no justification to even consider making an argument that the lift is in a vacuum.

Cut: Sorry for not stating that from the onset.

Actually, if the elevator shaft is not very big and then yeah, you could neglect the concluding speed; but, if were talking close to the sears tower, maybe that assumption is no longer valid, and immediately you DO have to consider the heavier lift dropping faster.

Galileo, ...:rolleyes: that guy was a crackpot :rofl:

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I was talking about falling in air (where heavier masses DO lag quicker), which is what is occurrence when you swing an elevator in a scape with a fluid restrained below that elevator.

Then again your argument full treatmen backwards: the elevator is exposed to the air resistance, while you, inside, aren't (unless there's a big gob in the floor of the elevator, in which case the site changes). Then you lag faster than the elevator which is slowed down by the flow of air, nobelium ?
:rofl: ! I just thought roughly that endure night while lying in bed. You beat Maine to posting information technology!!

Yes, you are 100% correct, YOU will always fall quicker than the elevator, so your feet will always keep contact with the ball over of the elevator.

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Lets antitrust combine the two (in reality, three) cases and talk of the elevator's entire acceleration visibility in a sincere life cable-is-severed scenario, since they all are valid - just at different points of the dusk. It may aid clarify things:

Case 1: Protrusive stationary, the instant the cable is thinned, the elevator will be in median freefall, under the scientific definition and both the elevator and somebody will be fast at the unvarying rate. For an instant, then, the person is weightless inside the elevator.

Causa 2: As the elevator accelerates, wind impedance kicks in at an ever increasing rate, deceleration the elevator's acceleration. The person on the elevator bit by bit increases in angle.

Shell 3: When the elevator reaches end speed, the person regains his/her convention weight.

Two notes:

-Information technology is a inferior layman's mistake to consider "freefall" to admit all tierce cases. Skydivers, for instance, call the entire fall before opening the parachute "freefall". So the OP truly could have meant any (operating room all) of the cases.
-The terminal speed of an elevator is much lower than most people would expect. How low, I'm not secure, but the lift's density is relatively down in the mouth since it is filled with air, and it is occupation a closed shaft the air tin can't "get on out of the way" as easy, and the elevator pushes more ahead of IT than information technology would if it weren't in an open shaft.

Elevators are NOT close to 3 of the 4 walls of a shaft of light(some have early designs, such as displacement "channels")
Anyway, there is AMPLE room betwixt the elevator and the 3 walls for air travel to flow aweigh(or polish) the sides, badly mitagating compression personal effects.

In any event, IT is the abrupt decceleration which kills you American Samoa your organic structure collapses towards the floor of the disordered elevator when IT hits the bottom of the shaft.
The virtually vulnerable parts of a man body during rapid decceleration are the brain, affection and other internal variety meat which will suddenly brea position and constrict, destructive them and possible ripping-out their connection with the rest of the human physical structure.
Of course, the impact itself oft violently throws your head against the sides orfloor(operating theater into strange people)

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An orbiting shuttle is efficaciously a discharged-falling elevator. IT's falling towards the solid ground, but information technology's also moving forward at 18000mph, thusly information technology falls "around" the curve of the earth and never gets any closer to the surface.

The conditions privileged the shuttle are basically be the same Eastern Samoa inside your falling lift. You'd be weightless, and could push off the walls and ceiling etc, do pirouettes in the air, and fool just about with globules of water.

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Ive often heard orbits organism compared to a constant disengage fall, but why past doesnt the satellite or shuttle or any sustenance fast (at 9.8 m/s^2)?? The only formal classify instruction ive had on orbital mechanics delineate the weightlessness as existence the net of gravitational acceleration and centripetal (sp) acceleration. is this "perpetual free fall" an accurate description??
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Take a tilt and throw off it.

It bequeath travel ~5 feet in front it comes back to the earth.

Project it a little harder, it Crataegus oxycantha go on ~10 feet.

Shoot it out of a artillery, information technology may go ~1000 feet.

The harder you throw the rock, the faster information technology's speed, and the further it travels in front it lands back on the ground.

If you keep throwing this rock harder and harder, you will at length reach a point where the rock is traveling so prompt that as IT tries to fall rear to the earth, the earth starts to curve beneath the rock'n'roll.

This is when the rock is 'always' falling to the ground but never actually makes it second pull down.

You are straight off in orbit.

I understand that, its break loose speed. simply if the rock it 'always' decreasing to earth, why doesnt in keep accelerating at 'g'?
Edit: i think i got it.. in the parabolic trajectory, y=1/2*g*t^2 and x=v*t. so in an orbital cavity the 'x' becomes the tangential component and the 'y' becomes radial component which is balanced by the receptive acceleration. how's that??
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