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A common belief is that a hole in a jet plane can suck a person out. On an episode of a popular TV series, the hosts attempted to determine whether this is possible. According to the hosts' experiment, such an event cannot happen. Did they need to perform the experiment? As a science adviser to the show, the hosts ask you to perform a crude calculation to test the myth. A typical jet plane travels at 522 mph at a cruising altitude of 32500 ft. The windows on a jet plane measure 14.0 in × 14.0 in. Calculate the force ? exerted on such a window as the plane flies at 32500 ft above the sea level. Assume the density and pressure of air at 32500 ft are 0.410 kg/m3 and 259 mbar, respectively, but that the interior of the plane remains pressurized to atmospheric pressure, 1 atm. ?=__________________lb   Calculate the fractional difference between this force and the weight ?man of a typical adult male (185 lb). ??/man=   How would you respond to Adam and Jaime? a.There is no need to perform the experiment; it is impossible for a person to be sucked out of a plane. b. My calculation does not prove that such an event cannot happen; you will need to perform the experiment

A common belief is that a hole in a jet plane can suck a person out. On an episode of a popular TV series, the hosts attempted to determine whether this is possible. According to the hosts' experiment, such an event cannot happen. Did they need to perform the experiment? As a science adviser to the show, the hosts ask you to perform a crude calculation to test the myth. A typical jet plane travels at 522 mph at a cruising altitude of 32500 ft. The windows on a jet plane measure 14.0 in × 14.0 in. Calculate the force ? exerted on such a window as the plane flies at 32500 ft above the sea level. Assume the density and pressure of air at 32500 ft are 0.410 kg/m3 and 259 mbar, respectively, but that the interior of the plane remains pressurized to atmospheric pressure, 1 atm. ?=__________________lb   Calculate the fractional difference between this force and the weight ?man of a typical adult male (185 lb). ??/man=   How would you respond to Adam and Jaime? a.There is no need to perform the experiment; it is impossible for a person to be sucked out of a plane. b. My calculation does not prove that such an event cannot happen; you will need to perform the experiment

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13. A common belief is that a hole in a jet plane can suck a person out. On an episode of a popular TV series, the hosts attempted to determine whether this is possible. According to the hosts' experiment, such an event cannot happen.

Did they need to perform the experiment? As a science adviser to the show, the hosts ask you to perform a crude calculation to test the myth. A typical jet plane travels at 522 mph at a cruising altitude of 32500 ft. The windows on a jet plane measure 14.0 in × 14.0 in. Calculate the force ? exerted on such a window as the plane flies at 32500 ft above the sea level. Assume the density and pressure of air at 32500 ft are 0.410 kg/m3 and 259 mbar, respectively, but that the interior of the plane remains pressurized to atmospheric pressure, 1 atm.

?=__________________lb

 

Calculate the fractional difference between this force and the weight ?man of a typical adult male (185 lb).

??/man=

 

How would you respond to Adam and Jaime?

a.There is no need to perform the experiment; it is impossible for a person to be sucked out of a plane.

b. My calculation does not prove that such an event cannot happen; you will need to perform the experiment.

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