If your on a train ,travelling 200mph and you jump do you land in a different place.?

Question

If your on a train ,travelling 200mph and you jump do you land in a different place.?

Answer 1

Your question is a bit unclear. I am going to assume that you are talking about jumping into the air, in an enclosed area (like a rail car) so that we do not have to deal with wind and air resistance! I am also going to assume that you are jumping straight up, because if you were to jump in any other direction, you of course would land in a different place.

When you are traveling in an enclosed space such as a train, airplane car or bus, both you ane the vehicle are moving at the same speed. If you were to jump straight up and come straight down, you would land in the same spot in the vehicle.  The speed of the vehicle is not relevant, because it and you are part of the same system!

Try this when you are the passenger in a car. Take a small ball and gently toss it into the air and catch it . the speed of the car does not matter, because you, the car and the ball are all traveling at the same speed! The ball will go up and land the same  way if you are stopped, or traveling at a high rate of speed!

If you jump in the train, you land in the same spot on the train. This of course would be a different spot on earth, because the train and you are moving. During the time you jump, the train will have traveled down the tracks

Answer 2

We are obviously not talking UK.

Answer 3

pmsl @polo :o)

Answer 4

yes.....in hospital if ur lucky..heaven or h**l if ur not lol

Answer 5

No...because you are travelling at the same speed as the train.

Answer 6

Yes. I believe they call it a cemetery....

Answer 7

Unless you jumped forward or backwards or side to side you would land in the same spot that you jumped from. This is because you are travelling with the train in a neutral environment. Everything in the train is travelling at the same speed in the same direction, everything is under the same "Kinematic Force". If this was not the case and say you passed something to someone, if you let go of it before the person you were passing the object to was holding the object (i.e. you dropped the object) it would just fall to the floor, it would not accelerate to 200mph and hit the person (although this would be funny with cake!!)

Answer 8

you will be about 100 metres down the track ;)

Answer 9

Good Question !

I wonder.... thinking about it there are two outcomes....

1) You just up and land in the same spot...

2) you just up and as you have jumped directy upwards and the train is moving you then end up further down.....

I would think though that you would land on a different spot

because if the floor is moving and you are in the air on the same spot/position the floor wil move away from you...

hope this helped :)

Answer 10

You might land in a different place but you will end up in several places.......

Answer 11

Yes its called relativity, at the point you leave the train you will be travelling at 200mph. The force of gravity will then pull the person to the ground, wind resistance will slow the person down until the hit the ground.

Answer 12

the answer is no.

do you land in a diff place if you jump up from  your seat in a car traveling 100mph? No.

Answer 13

Yes, you will continue to move at the speed of the train minus the air resistance.  If the train is accelerating/breaking this must be accounted for.

Answer 14

If your in the train, and the train is travelling at a constant speed, not accel / decel you will land in the same place. Of course, if you are on the roof of the train, that would be a very different story!

Answer 15

You mean straight up?  Yeah, I think so.  I'm going to try next time I'm on a train.  You move on a treadmill, don't you?  Surely it's the same?

Answer 16

no, you land in the same place because the air in the carriage is travelling at the same speed as the train and you (or something like that anyway) - it took me years to understand that tricky concept, and i'm not sure i still really do - and did you know that if you jump out of the train you will hit the ground at the speed the train is travelling - in this case 200mph, which would really hurt wouldn't it?

Answer 17

Read Newtons law and you'll find your answer

Answer 18

assuming the train isn`t in uk re: speed.

i think if you jump from it you`d end up in a different place to if you fell.

gravity-forces?

take a tapemeasure with you next time `eh lol.

Answer 19

i told you to buy a ticket it saves all that scraping gunge off the track.

Answer 20

oh I think I would wake up dead tomorrow,lol

Answer 21

Yes because you are still traveling at 200 mph relative to the ground when you jump. So you will land forward (in the direction the train was moving) of the point from which you jumped.

Answer 22

relative to the ground yes..relative to the floor of the train no...

Answer 23

zzr1400 deristricted!!!

have some fun !!!!

Answer 24

I assume y ou mean jumping FROM the train, if you jump within the train obviously you come back down in exactly the same place you jumped from. If you are on an open falt car the wind would push you back a good ways depending on your profile and weight.

But . . . . . if you jump FROM the train you would land in a whole lot of different places, all  along the right of way in a long bloody smear

Answer 25

I've wondered about this before. I assume you mean not jump off the train?! But do you mean inside or outside (i.e. on the roof). I've asked my tutor about this too (Physics teacher) and he couldn't really explain it very well. I used the example of 'if you were stood in a trailer on a car and jumped fairly high, would you land on the road'... similar thing though, I think.

I found this when I searched on Google - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/If_you_jump_up... - it explains it quite well for if you were inside the train.

Answer 26

I like Polo's answer - a cemetry.

Answer 27

IF you jump WITHIN the train... straight up, you'll land in the same place since you are moving WITH the train.

IF you jump OFF the train, you'll land a distance away from the point at which you left the train... I don't know the equation, but it takes into account the trains speed, gravity, and the distance of the FALL.

In common SENSE, you'll land in a body-bag in numerous pieces

Answer 28

you will pull by the impact about 20-40 meters in the place where you jumped