Do I get wetter running??? or walking in the rain ????

Question

Ya see if i run then I am running into rain faster !!!!

Answer 1

Listen to this and never query it again.

The idea that you get wetter running in the rain is a total myth.

People say that running would make more running hit you on the front than if you were walking, thus making you wetter.  This is true, BUT, this is not enough to outway the the amount of water you would receive for being out in the rain so long by walking.

I'll repeat- the idea that you get wetter running is a myth, except perhaps in exceptional circumstances when rain is hitting you at a very flat angle, but this is not found naturally.

Don't be taken in the the feasible, yet totally incorrect arguments that other people present to you!

For this argument to work, rain would be having to be hitting you at a such a flat angle, it would be nearly 180 degrees.

Answer 2

If the rain is falling vertically then when you are standing still there is only the upper most portions of your boddy getting water doplets on it. Now imaging hurtling along at very high speed, in any finite amount of time the doplets landing on your upper surfaces will be the same as if you were stationary but you now have to contend with the droplets that you are slamming into giving more water and hence a wetter you. waking is just somewhere between the 2. So you get wetter jogging in the rain than walking over an even time interval.

Answer 3

Running gets you *slightly* more wet, but not noticably. Running might get you a little more wet, but you are in the rain for a shorter period of time, giving more sense to running than to walking.

Answer 4

You can get wet in an indoor gym without watching the weather forecast.

Answer 5

Running. My grandpa used to give my aunt a hard time when she was driving. He would say "Your driving so fast you're hitting every rain drop that falls." lol

Answer 6

running they done it on brainiac science abuse. forgot how it worked but you do get wetter running in the rain

Answer 7

u get wetter running in the rain

mythbusters proved it

Answer 8

Brainiac  -  a scientific programme did this exact chase. One man ran 10 laps of a course in rain and one walked. At the end they counted the amount of rain on the person and it was the man who ran in the rain that had got the wettest

However i still would prefer to run to get home quicker

Answer 9

walking, cause when u run the water satys on u but when u walk it has time to drip off.

Answer 10

Walking, as the rain would be on you for longer.

Answer 11

Since all velocities are relative, lets do a trick.  It's perfectly legal, and It might be easier to visualize what's going on.

Pretend you can fly like Superman, with the rain drops suspended in the air.  Your head and shoulders present a horizontal surface for sweeping out the raindrops, and your front presents a vertical surface.

If you run along the ground from point A to point B, your front surface does all the sweeping.  Your top surface never gets wet since the normal is perpendicular to your velocity.  This situation corresponds to a minimum amount of sogginess, provided by running MUCH faster than the drops are falling.

Now, if you start flying (completely upright) at a gradual upwards angle, the front surface is no longer normal to the velocity, so the effective cross-sectional area sweeping out volume is less, but the distance this surface will travel from the vertical plane thru A to the plane thru B is now greater, which offsets that effect.  Meantime, the top horizontal surface starts sweeping out volume too.  The steeper the angle of ascent, the more the top surface gets wet, whilst the front surface always sweeps out the same amount.

Net result is flying will get you wetter.  The greater the angle of ascent, the wetter you will get.

Flying corresponds to walking.  The greater the angle, the slower the walk.