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Q.

Passenger of a train just drops a stone from it. The train was moving with constant velocity. What is path of the stone as observed by the passenger itself?

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a

vertically downward in a straight line

b

parabolic projectile path

c

depends on the velocity of the train

d

None of these

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Horizontal component of velocities of passenger and stone are same. Therefore relative velocity in horizontal direction is zero. Hence the relative motion is only in vertical direction and the downward motion of stone observed by the passenger is on a straight line due to gravitational acceleration.

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