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If a plane is going 500 mph and you run from back of plane to front are you going faster than the plane?

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If a plane is going 500 mph and you run from back of plane to front are you going faster than the plane?

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  1. Relative to the plane, no because that is your frame of reference.  Relative to the earth, yes you will be running 500+ however fast you run.  I think...


  2. yes

    A person sitting will travel 20 ft in time A= speed of plane, you travel in time A + run speed

  3. Well You'll Probably Slam Into Some Chairs And Such So No

  4. Haha, thats an interesting question! It may seem so, but that is not the case.

    Speed is relative.

  5. no. You are still going  500mph only difference is the US Marshall will get you tackle you down and put you in jail when you get off.

  6. Speed is relative. Relative to the ground, yes, you are travelling faster than the plane. Some people said that relative to the plane, you are definitely not faster than the plane. This is wrong. If the plane is the frame of reference, then the plane isn't moving at all, whereas you are moving. There do exist however frames of reference in which the plane is faster than you. An example would be a plane next to the one that you're in, that travels in the same direction, but at your speed. An observer sitting inside this plane sees you as stationary, but the plane you're in as moving slowly backwards. There is no frame of reference in which the plane has a greater forward velocity than you (backward motion counts as negative forward velocity).

  7. no because your  not the one going 500 mph if you where put next to  the plane it would be be ALOT  faster!

  8. Yes, if you're at the same spot.

  9. No. See, if you were doing that, then you would be using the plane's speed to get you a faster rate, but that's simply not your speed, that's the planes. You cannot combine the velocity of a moving aircraft and a normal human being's speed. That's called Intelectual Biosphere. this means that the numbers that the aircraft is running at, cannot possibly fuse with a person's speed. YOUR speed would be like 1 mph, but if you imagine it without the plane and still moving forward, then it would be 501 mph.

  10. Relative to the earth, yes.  But you are still only moving at your running speed relative to the plane.

  11. relative to a stationary observer on the ground yes

  12. I don't suggest you try this experiment. It's a good way to p**s off the flight staff and get detained and then arrested at the next stop.

  13. Technically you are going faster than the plane, but since you could not do that on your own you fall into the same scientific category as the space plane which  needs a piggy-back ride to achieve an altitude where it can break out of gravity's grip with the fuel and engines it carries.

  14. no, because you'd be on/in the plane

  15. Yes and no.  It depends on your frame of reference.  If your frame of reference is outside of the airplane, then yes, you are going faster than the airplane.  Inside of the airplane, you can walk from the back to the front of the plane casually.  If your frame of reference is the airplane, then you are definitely not going faster than the airplane.

  16. relative to the earth you are faster than the plane

    relative to the floor, no

    frame of reference does matter

  17. Technically yes, because you are using the inertia of the plane to travel 500mph in the first place.  Consider the fly that goes out of the window of a moving car.  It is initially traveling at the same rate as the car, but cannot maintain that speed upon leaving and ends up falling behind.

  18. Yes, you are. Think of it like this- sitting down in a plane, your speed is the same as the plane's, which is 500 mph (plus Earth's rotation, etc.), so when you add your running/walking speed to that, you are going slightly faster than the plane, and if you could maintain that speed (let's say 501 mph for simplicity) and leave the plane, you would slowly overtake it. However, if you run from the front to the back, you are going slower, maybe 499 mph.

    To the other people who say 'no, you are only moving at running speed', you are incorrect. While to you, you are only moving at running speed, to a person standing still and watching you run through some magical glass-bottomed plane, you are moving faster than the plane itself. Though MOVEMENT is relative, speed is not. The speed you are moving is not relative, the point of view does nothing to change it.

  19. yes, but only as fast as you are running

  20. it depends on your relative reference point

    1) relative to the ground

    if someone looks up at you and by chance can see you running along plane from front to back they will see you running faster than plane

    so your speed relative to the ground is faster than the plane

    2)  relative to the plane

    if you're on the plane then passengers won't see you running faster than plane instead it seems like you are running on a non-moving object they would compare your speed of 5mph with that of the 500mph since they know it is moving fast even though they don't really feel it (imagine if they did!)

    to them it seems your running on stationary object so they would only notice that 5mph and would compare it to the speed of the plane from which they know that it is a fact that it is going at 500mph

    here is an analogy:

    say you are running

    but Earth is spinning really rapidly at some crazy speed

    does  that mean that you are running faster than EArth?

    well NO you are running on something that doesn't seem to be moving at all, the Earth

    and you're speed is so much less than that of Earth's orbital speed but if you could somehow look from space and see you running you will discover that from that reference point you are actually outruning the Earth!

    hope this helps

  21. yes you are going the speed of the plane plus the speed you are running so like: 500mph+5mph(mabye?)=505 mph. Which is faster than 500mph (speed of the plane)

  22. No. Not unless ur the Flash!!

    XD

  23. yes.

    it's the exact same as if you're on a moving walkway going 500mph (that's a killer escalator), and you run on the walkway, you're going faster thant the walkway.

  24. The frame of reference is important.  Yes, you would be going faster than the plane, relative to the ground.

  25. when you said "plane is going", do you mean flying or running on the runway. If it is flying no, you are not going faster than the plane. if it is running on the runway yes,you are going faster than the plane, but I think it is imposible.

  26. No you're still stationary to the plane.

  27. Im going to say no

  28. No because otherwise you would run through the plane:]

  29. yes, but barely

    it's just the plane speed plus how fast you are running

  30. Yes, your body is moving faster through space than the planes is. Speed of the plane + speed of your running.  But thanks to inertia you feel like you are going only as fast as you are running.

  31. No. The plane is moving 500 mph but you are moving at your regular run speed inside the plane. If you and the plane were put side by side, it would easily beat you.  
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