If you jump straight up in the air, how long would u have to stay there before u landed in a different spot?

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slushba132

forever sadly with momentum you are spinning at the same speed earth is
but earth is traveling at 1400 mhp so I always like to think about what it would be like to suddenly stop the earth

actually I guess with friction technically every time you jump it slows you down just enough to move about a 100th of a millimeter
if you jump perfectly up and down that is

Jude

I think you move with the earth's rotation. Try practising long jump instead!

spy1ke

Are you in a lift..?? (elavator for the yanks), or above a trap door that someone opens as soon as you jump..??

drunken master

lol lottsv erry good

alohalilreddiva

depending on how much u had to drink the night before!! have fun experimenting.

cutie

about a hour

RockHanger

It depends upon where the spot you want to land is.

lowflyer1

Depends on your definition of different.

If you jump perfectly perpendicular to the surface of the earth, regardless of how long or how short a time you spend in the air, you will land on a slightly different spot. The planet rotates at several hundred miles per hour, so even 1 second in the air will bring you down slightly shifted. Of course, the atmosphere at the surface is moving at almost the same rate as the surface, so maybe that's not quite right. The friction of the air will carry you along with it.

Oh never mind. I thought for a second there that I'd had a thought.

wintermag52

well basiclly with the rotation and revolution of the earth, you're already in a different spot than when you began to read this

Vegan

You'd be in a slightly different spot no matter how high you jumped.

At the equator the earth would be moving at roughly 1,000 miles per hour. The longer you were in the air, the more the earth would move.

Ooops, forgot about angular momentum. The poster above is correct, the only factors would be wind and air resistance.

Barry

The earth is constantly moving. You will always land in a new spot. (excluding all outside forces)

Pearl

The speed of earths rotation is approximately 1000mph at the EQUATOR. So, for every whole second you are in the air, you have travelled through space by approximately 1672 feet, or 509 metres.

Not everyone is on the equator, so to find how far you will have travelled at your current latitude, you need to multiply the distance above by the cosine of your latitude.

Oh, and don't forget to calculate multiply / divide this figure by the time you are actually in the air! ;-)

Maximus300

since the world in continually spinning, you never land in the EXACT same spot, so it would be a different place than when you jumped from :-)

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