<p>This isn’t homework or anything, but I was wondering about if you were in a bus moving really fast , you were in the center, and jumped, would you fall backwards to the back of the bus, or just stay in the middle?</p>
<p>You’d stay in the middle, just like you’d stay in the middle one a plane (all those food trolleys never go flying backwards).</p>
<p>Newton’s 1st law…otherwise you’d be dead if you tried to jump on an airplane.</p>
<p>Your horizontal velocity relative to the floor of the bus is zero, so you will stay in the middle.</p>
<p>I’m not answering your question, but I’m posting this from a bus right now. I would get up and try this, but I’m too lazy…
(You should stay in the middle unless the bus abruptly stops or speeds up)</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, I actually tested this out but had terrible timing skills.</p>