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Mosquito/fly inside the car travelling @ 100MPH, does fly flies at the same speed?

  • If you are travelling at the speed of 100 MPH and there is a mosquito inside the car, why the mosquito do not hit the rear glass and still happily fly's inside does it mean it is also travelling at the speed of 100 MPH

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    The air inside your car is traveling with your car with the same speed of your car. The mosquito is flying inside the moving air and does not think of it or realize the movement of the air inside. Think of an airplane flying carrying the air we breath in the cabin with a mosquito in the air.The same principal applies. The mosquito flies within that moving region of air. Yes, the mosquito does move with the same speed of your car. Let me expand the whole issue to you! Consider yourself walking on the ground and the wind is still. Do you feel the movement of air while the Earth is rotating around itself?The air is also moving with the movement of Earth and with the exact speed; that is why the air would be still. Moreover, while you walk, you don’t even feel the movement of Earth around itself, which moves with a speed equals to almost 1600 kilometers an hour, nevertheless, you have an additional movement while you walk, namely the one just mentioned which you don't or can't feel. Furthermore, you are not only moving with the Earth rotation around itself, but you are also moving with the Earth while it travels or revolves around the Sun. This movement of Earth mounts to over 17,000 kilometers an hour. Even that additional movement of Earth cannot be felt by you. Now, consider the movement of the sun around the center of the MilkyWay. The Earth moves with the movement of the Sun at a speed of over 750,000 kilometers/hour. Consider that amount of speed of Earth that is being taken along with the moving Sun which you don't feel or realize. Can you imagine how much movement you undergo while you stand or drive or walk on the face of the Earth which you are not aware of or realize? Now comes the ultimate movement that only God knows about - the expansion of the Universe. The Earth and the Sun are part of the Milkyway, and the Galaxy is not without motion. The Universe which contains the Galaxies are moving away from each other with a speed that scientists before Einstein thought its speed to be beyond the speed of light. Can you imagine that much movements in the Universe. That is how Einstein came up with his theory of relativity - By thinking about relative motion like you do with regards to the mosquito. So, the same principle applies on that mosquito inside your car! Yes the mosquito travels with the same speed of your car; it also has another independent motion on its own, that is its movement inside the air of your car!

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The Car has a volume of air in it that is also traveling at the same speed as the body of ther car. The Mosqito has some inertia as does the air and if the car could go from 0 to 100 instantly the bug would be squished but the car accelerates at a slower pace allowing the volume of air to move with it moving the mosqito also. Since air is a fluid there is a slosh effect but it is minimal since the acceleration is so slow. Also the total volume of the cars is filled with the air not allowing for much( really any ) movement. If you simulate this by taking a bottle and filling it full of water then suspending a nutrally boyant object in the water and as you move it the object will move slightly to the rear of the bottle. But if the bottle is not completely full you will see the water and the object moving at nearly the same speed to the rear of ther bottle giving the slosh effect.

fakrmage

I thinks if you open the windows of your car then mosquito can't fly inside the car even in less then 100mph speed but when your speed is 100MPH and windows are close then it can fly .Its mean when your windows are close then air pressure is normal inside car and all pressure is ressisted by the windows's glasses and mosquito fly, not only mosquito but even house fly can fly in this condition .It is not means that mosquito's speed is 100MPH.Ok buy and take care...

unicon

relative to the car? The mosquito is not moving at 100 mph, just at its regular flying around Relative to the ground, the mosquito is moving along with the car at 100 mph per hour + some wiggling from the mosquito's own movements. The reason why the mosquito isn't pulled to the back of the car is because the air around it moves along with the car. YOU, for example, moves along with the car because the seats (which is tied to the car) push you forward.

Lie Ryan

I has been correctly explained by many (and other times and in other languages even in YR), ... but what do those who answer NO mean? "Does it mean the mosquito is travelling at 100 mph?" YES !!! What is the doubt? If we're travelling at that speed, the mass of air within the car too, the mosquito is inside the car, then also IF: > we use the same system of reference for our speeds (car @ 100mph, those inside also referred to the same system); > consider the mosquito flying slowly and mantaining distance to the car windows, seats etc. (meaning, we neglect its Δspeed to car objects and persons within); THEN the mosquito IS travelling at 100 mph too. Example: we're travelling from NYC to Wahington DC in a car. There's a mosquito bugging inside. If the mosquito's average speed had been zero after arriving in Washington he would have stayed at New York. Regards. . . Outside/inside??? The speed is defined in reference to coordinates, if they're the same for the car and passengers we cannot say the car moves and the passengers (bugs included) don't. Again, if we go to another city in a car only the car travels and we stay at home? If we go in another car at the same speed, but this other car is not ours, then since we´re outside our car we move, but if we're inside it no?? Ridiculous !!

detallista

no. the fly does not die. i aint no scientist but i am telling from my experience. about a month back i was flying in JET AIR from hyderabad to delhi. I was by the window and here what i see is a mosquito trapped between the two layers of glasses that airplane window has. And all during the flight it was right there flying from one corner to the other, may be trying to find way out. Bottom line : the mosquito could not only survive the speed but also air pressure becoz he was still alive when i landed at delhi airport.

bill752001

No. The fly is static, just as you are inside the car. The speed of the fly (and you) is relative to the space you are in. If the fly (and you!) were OUTSIDE of the car going 100MPH, then YES, you would both be going 100 MPH.

kuntryguyy

for their to be any force to cause it to fly into the rear window suddenly, there had to be a change in speed ( acceleration) it is the same reason why you can walk on a plane or bus as long as its not abruptly changing speed

byedinosaurs

That's also my question a couple of months ago but nobody replied, Thanks for this, anyway the asnwer is NO because the motion inside the car is STATIC it means the car is the only thing moving

jayveelim1323

As far as I know, when a car travels at that speed, the atmosphere inside it travels at that speed, too. That's why you don't hit the rear glass when you sit inside the car and so does the mosquito.

Wendy Weasly

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