If you were in an elevator that suddenly broke and plummeted, would it make a difference if you were to jump (just straight up, not that high) just before the elevator makes contact with the ground beneath?
It seems to me - physics dimwit that I am - that if you were standing on the elevator floor as the elevator went down, taking a little leap before the crash would mean that you "just" suffered the impact of that leap (and landing on whatever shape the elevator would be in after that).
Then again, would you be able to jump in a falling elevator at all? Gravity and all that...
I said I was a physics dimwit, didn't I?
Ci "the things I wonder about..." ara
