While on a bus a rider decides to get some exercise by jumping straight up. The bus speeds up to pass a car while the rider is in the air. Where wioo the rider land relative to her standing position?

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Keaton Archer

7 May, 08:21

While on a bus a rider decides to get some exercise by jumping straight up. The bus speeds up to pass a car while the rider is in the air. Where wioo the rider land relative to her standing position?

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Marissa Williams · Answer 1

If the rider is holding nothing while jumping then he would land slightly behind his original position as the bus would have accelerated in the time he was in air and his speed would only be equal to original speed of bus before acceleration