Timeline for Does a person inside a falling bus fall to the front of it?
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| Jul 4, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | Floris | Agree with you. The original point of the question was: "is this in accordance with the laws of physics" and the answer is "no". Whether it is a "good" scene is an entirely different question - probably not for the physics SE. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | User Not Found | @Floris Great point, I had also noticed the fact that "hitting multiple chairs without apparently losing momentum relative to the bus still appears to imply that he is accelerating relative to the bus" but that is probably to enhance the movie's thrill...following physics strictly would have reduced the "scariness" of the scene... | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 4:56 | comment | added | Floris | Good point about the fact he probably started falling before the bus was free from the bridge. If you go back to 0:58 in the movie clip you see Isaac come out of the bathroom - the shift in center of gravity may have precipitated the fall. I do think that the scene that shows him hitting multiple chairs without apparently losing momentum relative to the bus still appears to imply that he is accelerating relative to the bus even when the bus is in free fall. On the first hard "bounce" (at 1:12) he should have slowed down a lot. Not exactly "weightless"... | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 15:05 | history | answered | User Not Found | CC BY-SA 3.0 |