Jumping in a falling elevator won't help because you and the elevator are both falling at the same speed due to gravity, so jumping won't change anything. It's safer to lie flat on the floor and protect your head and neck during a fall.
If an elevator is falling and you jump inside, you will still be moving at the same speed as the elevator. Jumping will not change the outcome of the fall. It is safer to brace yourself and try to protect your head and body during the fall.
In a falling elevator, both the elevator and the object inside are accelerating downwards at the same rate under gravity. This creates the sensation of weightlessness, as the object is not experiencing any resistance or contact force from the elevator floor. However, gravity is still acting on the object, causing it to accelerate downwards at the same rate as the elevator.
In a free-falling elevator, both you AND the elevator are falling at the same rate of acceleration with respect to the gravitational pull of the Earth. Therefore, since both you and the elevator both accelerate at the same rate, making your velocities increase at the same rate, and you both start off with the same initial velocity, you both travel at roughly the same velocity relative to each other during the entire descent, meaning that your head should not hit the roof of the elevator at any point.
If you jump before an elevator crashes, you may reduce the impact force on your body when the elevator hits the ground. However, it is not guaranteed to prevent injury as the force of the crash can still be significant. It is generally recommended to stay low and brace yourself for impact in such situations.
No, the person inside the elevator will not float. Objects in freefall experience weightlessness, but the person will still accelerate downward due to gravity. The experience will feel like weightlessness, but they are still subject to gravity's pull.
If an elevator is falling and you jump inside, you will still be moving at the same speed as the elevator. Jumping will not change the outcome of the fall. It is safer to brace yourself and try to protect your head and body during the fall.
No. It is impossible to jump up to save your life and outrun the downwards pull of a falling lift, as in Mythbusters' Elevator Of Death
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It is now patched with all other elevator glitches.
In a falling elevator, both the elevator and the object inside are accelerating downwards at the same rate under gravity. This creates the sensation of weightlessness, as the object is not experiencing any resistance or contact force from the elevator floor. However, gravity is still acting on the object, causing it to accelerate downwards at the same rate as the elevator.
That's no more true than it is to say that if everybody in an elevator will jump up when the elevator reaches the bottom, there will be no people on the floor of the elevator when it reaches bottom.
because of the gravity
The astronaut, space ship and everything in it are all falling at the same speed (falling around the Earth is called ORBIT). If everything is falling at the same speed, they are effectively weightless. Its like falling in an elevator, if everything is falling at the same speed you will appear to be floating around the elevator. Until it reaches the basement.
I don't see how falling would increase your vertical jump. You are risking an injury when you fall.
Yes, inside a freely-falling elevator, you would experience apparent weightlessness. This is because the elevator and everything inside it, including you, would be falling at the same rate due to gravity, creating the sensation of weightlessness.
The impact was that, it helped people travel up in the elevator to a high floor instead of walking, without the risk of the cable snapping and the elevator falling. :D
In a free-falling elevator, both you AND the elevator are falling at the same rate of acceleration with respect to the gravitational pull of the Earth. Therefore, since both you and the elevator both accelerate at the same rate, making your velocities increase at the same rate, and you both start off with the same initial velocity, you both travel at roughly the same velocity relative to each other during the entire descent, meaning that your head should not hit the roof of the elevator at any point.