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Grade 11General Physics

When i was travelling by train, i observed that Mosquitos present in the coach flying along with train speed with out changing its position.My question is how can a mosquito travel with train speed relatively?

Profile image of Nagaraju Illuri
13 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Akash Kumar Dutta
13 Years ago

its the same way when u jump inside the train and the train doesnt leaves u behind.
the mosquito may be stationary with respect to the train but is moving with some velocity in ground frame.
the mosquito travels at the train speed relatively since when it left the surface its velocity= v(train) + v(mosquito)....
not only v(mosquito).

Profile image of Chetan Mandayam Nayakar
13 Years ago

The air within the train travels along with the train.