What would happen? Would the water hit the roof of the elevator since the elevator is falling rapidly?
I thought about it when I put Eye Drops in an elevator.
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If you hit the ceiling then the water will hit the ceiling. If the elevator is free falling then you might feel weightless so you and the water wouldn’t move. In normal operation the water goes to the floor like you.
If the elevator were falling for long enough to reach terminal velocity would the water not just stay in the bottle or at most trickle out? That would make sense to me anyway.
If the elevator is rapidly accelerating downwards, the water might hit the roof, but if the elevator is moving at a consistent rate (or not accelerating that much) the water would act like you were standing stationary.
Once the elevator is moving, the water will pour like normal because gravity is going to affect it at the same rate regardless of how fast it is already moving.
Nah, it hit the floor. The elevator would need to be in free fall (or close to) for it to hit the roof.
You’re just not moving fast enough.
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