There's a humming bird in your car...
06-12-2009 | 10:49 AM
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06-12-2009 | 10:54 AM
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06-12-2009 | 10:55 AM
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OK, but my McDonalds fries are just sitting on a seat, unnattached, they fly forward also.
I guess you would have to like throw something in the air, then slam on the brakes while it is in midair and see if it goes forward?
Replace slamming on brakes with slamming into a brick wall. If there was no rear windshield lets say, would the hummingbird just stay stationary and fly away out the back unharmed?
I guess you would have to like throw something in the air, then slam on the brakes while it is in midair and see if it goes forward?
Replace slamming on brakes with slamming into a brick wall. If there was no rear windshield lets say, would the hummingbird just stay stationary and fly away out the back unharmed?
If you just throw something up in the air while driving, it still has the initial speed of when you were holding it driving...still not its own independent force
06-12-2009 | 11:02 AM
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OK but remember, the bird is hovering at 60+mph relative to everything outside the car.. ok. So use my brick wall example, the car comes to a complete stop via brick wall, what happens to the bird? Does it just magically stop travelling 60mph or is it going to fly into the brick wall?
So if you come to a complete stop without hitting a wall, the bird WAS going 60 mph, what happens to the bird? it magically stops? or it slams into the windshield?
So if you come to a complete stop without hitting a wall, the bird WAS going 60 mph, what happens to the bird? it magically stops? or it slams into the windshield?
06-12-2009 | 11:05 AM
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Hmm..well keep in mind the air in the car isn't pressurized so it's not the same like an airplane...dammit this is a good brain buster.
Imma try this on the ride home.
Imma try this on the ride home.
06-12-2009 | 11:08 AM
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If the bird was in a plane and the plane came to a stop, say via contact with the ground, then I think the bird dies that way also.
06-12-2009 | 11:23 AM
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So I asked my co-worker and he says that it would hit the window. "Even if the air is static and the bird is IN the car; it has to travel at the same speed of the car to keep next to your head. So even if the car stops the bird may not be attached to the car but it still is moving at the same force. The only way it won't keep going is if it's smart enough to stop, haha.
SPLAT!
SPLAT!
06-12-2009 | 11:27 AM
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for the hummingbird to hover in a moving vehicle, it needs to propel itself to the same speed as the vehicle, in this case, 65mph.
if the hummingbird is not tetherd to the vehicle in any way, if the vehicle decreases its speed in a rapid manor (heavy breaking), there is no physical contact to the hummingbird and it will continue on its original path, in this case, would be the front windshield.
when a vehicle is traveling at any given speed, everything within the vehicle is traveling at the same speed, but this is due to being tethered to the car itself (via seat or other mechanism). The hummingbird has to propel itself to the cars speed since there is no physical contact to anything interior, and it will not be affected by any force to stop the vehicle.
looks like its related to newtons first law of physics: An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
poor hummingbird
if the hummingbird is not tetherd to the vehicle in any way, if the vehicle decreases its speed in a rapid manor (heavy breaking), there is no physical contact to the hummingbird and it will continue on its original path, in this case, would be the front windshield.
when a vehicle is traveling at any given speed, everything within the vehicle is traveling at the same speed, but this is due to being tethered to the car itself (via seat or other mechanism). The hummingbird has to propel itself to the cars speed since there is no physical contact to anything interior, and it will not be affected by any force to stop the vehicle.
looks like its related to newtons first law of physics: An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
poor hummingbird