Question

A stone is just dropped from the window of a train moving along a horizontal straight track with uniform speed. The path of the stone is

Moderate

Solution

For an observer on the ground , initial horizontal component of velocity of the stone is equal to the velocity of the train and initial vertical component of velocity of the stone is zero.Therefore the situation is equivalent to horizontal projection from a height and the trajectory is a parabola.

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