the continued movement
Asker: yasmin, 20 years
Answer
You will go backwards, and you give the correct reason yourself in your question: in ideal, vacuum conditions (like in space) you would indeed land back where you started, but on earth air resistance causes your horizontal speed is slowed down. If the train continues to move at the same speed, you are indeed going backwards on the roof of the train (or: the train is moving ahead under you).
Answered by
drs. Joachim Ganseman
computer science, digital signal processing, with focus on audio and music data editing and processing
University of Antwerp
Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerp
http://www.uantwerpen.be
Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerp
http://www.uantwerpen.be
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