Why whenever you drop something out of a car, it falls behind you but when you drop something inside a car, it falls straight down?
In: Physics
* You know how when you’re moving in car and you open the window and stick your hand outside you feel the air pushing against it?
* You know how that doesn’t happen when you’re inside the car?
* It’s because everything in the car is moving forward at the same speed.
* When you drop something inside the car, it keeps moving forward just like you, the car, and the air in the car do.
* But when you drop it outside the car, the air out there is just sitting still and the object is suddenly pushing against it.
* So the air pushes back (just like it does on your hand) and so the object doesn’t move forward as fast as you and the car do.
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