Question

Suppose you are standing in the aisle of a bus that travels along a straight road at 100km/h and you have a pencil still above your head. Then relative to the bus the velocity of the pencil is 0km/h, and relative to the road the pencil had a horizontal velocity of

Answer 1

Answer: 100km/h

Explanation: This is because the road isn't moving. If you drew the roads velocity and the bus velocity you would find a 100km/h difference. Thus an object inside the bus would experience the same differential.