If I’m on top of a moving train, facing forward, and I fire a gun what happens to the bullet?
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The bullet will have the speed of the train plus the speed of whatever the gun produces firing it.
(EDIT: Opposite to that, Mythbusters fired a projectile from a moving vehicle backward at the same speed, which just dropped to the ground basically)
The bullet will be slowed down by air drag slowly, while the train will keep it’s speed.
If both would move in a straight line without obstacles, the bullet would zoom in-front of the train, get slower, loose height and land on the ground before the train arrives at that point.
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