Question #980a5
1 Answer
Dec 19, 2017
The gravity would keep you there (once you had stopped oscillating)
Explanation:
Let’s assume that the hole has been dug and you’ve jumped in. As you go down you will accelerate until the air resistance matches the force of gravity, and then actually slow down as the force of gravity will fall (the mass above your head will also pull on you.)
You would overshoot the core, as only then will there be a force slowing you down, but then ‘wobble’ either side of the core’s centre until you come to rest.
I don’t think the electromagnetic force will have any great effect. It affects objects that are charged (we aren’t terribly) or magnetic (we aren’t hardly at all) so will have virtually no bearing on our movement.
