If you were on a bus......

[Glpblondie]

if you were standing at the front of a bus and jumped in the air while it was moving, would you land back on the same spot or would you land at the back of the bus as you were in mid air?

[JudgeJ]

Thanks, bob. I think you've covered everything and put an end to this nonsense.

wildwood - you need to revisit your physics notes. If you are travelling at a constant velocity (even if that velocity is being maintained by the bus's engine in its efforts to overcome air resistance and rolling resistance upon the bus) you need something to act upon you to cause you to slow down. You will not slow down in the air (which is stationary relative to you) just because you have parted company with the floor of the bus.

[theprof]

Wong your last post was laconic, lacked detail regarding your objections to previous posts and has failed to substantiate why you consider that the majority of posters are incorrect. You've already been told as much.

The phrase "please take time to consider the error of your ways" is meaningless. What do you mean? Perhaps you would care to take the opportunity to expand further.

Whilst you have criticised others, you have not provided the basis for you criticism. As Benjamin Disraeli said Wong "It is easier to be critical than correct".

So come on Wong, substantiate your reasoning in more detail than you've provided to date. Then we can all take the opportunity to demolish them using science at its best.

[theprof]

JudgeJ:

I think that Wong should still be given the opportunity to explain his reasoning to us all. As an academic, I read and hear of theories from the demonstable to the madcap on a daily basis and I really would like to know the reasoning behind Wong's assertions.

I wonder if Wong's paid too much attention to "The Matrix" series of films? Perhaps Wong likes "Kill Bill" too.

Oh well, the school holidays will be over soon and it will all return to normal.

[JudgeJ]

Oh, and by the way, wildwood, also revisit your English notes. A person undertaking the act of jumping is a jumper, not a jumpee. A jumpee (if such a word exists) would be a person being jumped.