If you flew a toy helecopter inside a car, and it started moving, would the helicopter stay in the same place?

Question

the reference point being the car

Answer 1

No, it would move (in reference to the passengers in the car) the opposite direction the car is moving.

This is an easy question.  When the car accelerates, you get pushed back into your seat don't you?

Answer 2

The helicopter would move to the rear of the car, (or any vessel) when there is forward acceleration and would move to the front when there is deceleration, until it is acted upon by an exterior force. Newton had ideas on this subject (The three universal laws of motion)

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

Assuming the windows are closed, the helicopter would move to the back of the car, but would move forward relative to a helicopter hovering parallel to it outside the car.  The air inside the vehicle is pushed forward with the vehicle causing resistance against the inside helicopter.  But not nearly enough to keep the helicopter from hitting the back of the car.  Now, if you do this experiment and accelerate the car very slow, then I would think the helicopter would remain motionless relative to the car.  It's a good question, and that's my opinion on what would happen.

Answer 4

Yes if the windows are closed.  No if they are open.

You can try this with a baloon in a car.

Answer 5

it would unless you had a convertible with the top down

Answer 6

it would tend to remain in the same place, as referenced by the ground, until it came into contact with the interior of the car.

Answer 7

The helicopter would continue to hover inside the car in the same location with in the car - regardless of the speed of the car. The same action would occur the same toy in an airplane too. Ever notice a fly in the car buzzes around unaffected by the speed of the car? This is because the atmosphere inside the car is stable. Now, if you start opening windows, that'll change everything because the atmosphere inside the vehicle is no longer isolated. And both the inside and outside of the vehicle are moving through the outside atmosphere.

Answer 8

With the reference point being the car, the helicopter would move backwards, as long as it was already hovering before the car accelerated.  If you waited until the car was already moving at a constant rate of speed and then began to fly the helicopter, then the helicopter would be moving at the speed of the car, and thus stay in the same place.