Why dosnt a fly go splatt n the back of the car window??

john the one · 25-03-2013 5:49pm #1

So, if a car is travelling at 100 km an hour and a fly is flying around in it, does that mean the fly can fly at 100 km an hour aswell??? Shouldnt it whack off the back window making a lovely gooey mess?

Obviously when people are sitting in the car, the seat stops them from ejecting out the back window, but what about airplanes?? You can walk around in them.

Im stumped

IM0 · 25-03-2013 5:50pm

relativity

Banjo String · 25-03-2013 5:51pm

john the one wrote: »

So, if a car is travelling at 100 km an hour and a fly is flying around in it, does that mean the fly can fly at 100 km an hour aswell??? Shouldnt it whack off the back window making a lovely gooey mess?

Obviously when people are sitting in the car, the seat stops them from ejecting out the back window, but what about airplanes?? You can walk around in them.

Im stumped

Pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

Prodigious · 25-03-2013 5:51pm

Obvious troll is obvious.

Mr Benevolent · 25-03-2013 5:52pm

Put simply, F= M*A

Ruu · 25-03-2013 5:52pm

Buzz off.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 25-03-2013 5:53pm

I got this one wrong in the LC

Bipolar Joe · 25-03-2013 5:53pm

The reason you can walk around inside a plane is because you don't have the outside wind flapping all about your person. A fly will go splat on your window unless it's travelling at the same speed as your car. Stand at the front of a bus, throw a ball straight up and see where it lands.

Also, the inertia from stopping is why we wear seat belts. Seats don't stop you crashing through a window, the belt does. If you stop hard at speed, everything not bolted down keeps moving until it stops naturally.

kneemos · 25-03-2013 5:53pm

john the one wrote: »

So, if a car is travelling at 100 km an hour and a fly is flying around in it, does that mean the fly can fly at 100 km an hour aswell??? Shouldnt it whack off the back window making a lovely gooey mess?

Obviously when people are sitting in the car, the seat stops them from ejecting out the back window, but what about airplanes?? You can walk around in them.

Im stumped

What about when you step on the brakes why doesn't it splat off the front window.

mawk · 25-03-2013 5:54pm

john the one wrote: »

but what about airplanes?? You can walk around in them.

Im stumped

For the love of god never try jump in an airplane. When you stop touching it it keeps moving at 500mph and you crash into the back of it!

Gbear · 25-03-2013 5:55pm

You're moving along with the car/train/plane.

If you could accelerate fast enough then yes, a fly would splat against a back window.

I suspect that because the fly is so light the air in the car, which is also travelling at 100km/h, carries it along.