A common belief is that a hole in a jet plane can suck a person out. On an episo

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A common belief is that a hole in a jet plane can suck a person out. On an episode of the popular TV series Myth Busters, hosts Adam and Jaime attempted to determine whether this is possible. According to the hosts' experiment, such an event cannot happen (that is, they "busted" the myth).  But did they need to perform the experiment? As a science advisor to the show, Adam and Jaime ask you to perform a crude calculation to test the myth. A typical jet plane travels at 532 mph at a cruising altitude of 32500 ft. The windows on a jet plane measure 14.0 in

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force is

F=P*A

so

pressure difference is=101.325 kPa-26Pa=101.299 kPa

so Area=14inch*14ich=196inch^2=0.126451 sq m

so

force=0.126451*101299=12809.359849 N

and

weight of a adult male=83.91458845*g N=185*g lbs=822.36296681N

so,

fractional differnce =11986.996882/12809.359849=0.9358

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