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I assume it partly depends on how much lateral velocity the phone had. If it landed at a good angle with respect to the train and "slid" away most of it's ener
by akira2501 3y ago
I assume it partly depends on how much lateral velocity the phone had. If it landed at a good angle with respect to the train and "slid" away most of it's energy, then perhaps nothing unusual would be noticed.
Anyways is it the obvious thing to lock a phone merely because of a large jolt?
- krallja 3y agoBoeing doesn’t make trains. This phone fell out of the sky.
- akira2501 3y agoYes, and planes stay in the sky because they travel and hundreds of miles per hour of relative ground speed. So, you would expect things that fall out of them to have a lateral velocity component in addition to their vertical one.
- krallja 3y agoA jet airplane is low-drag and has thrust from its engines; a phone has neither. The phone’s downward velocity is constantly accelerated of gravity, so it will stay at terminal velocity downward. Its forward velocity begins rapidly decreasing immediately upon leaving the plane, due to air resistance. After just a few seconds, the phone will be traveling mostly-downward.