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What happens when you are sitting in a train and flip a coin when the train begins to move?
When the passenger in a train moving with a constant speed tosses a coin, the coin will fall back to the spot where it was tossed from as if the train was stationary. Because the coin is also moving with constant speed along with the train.
When you are on a train and you throw a ball up in the air the ball will?
When a person throws a ball up in a moving vehicle, say, a train, the ball does come straight back to thrower as though the train were at rest. This is an iron-clad evidence for the law of inertia as the horizontal motion of ball before, during and after the catch is the same.
How does a coin tossed can move in upward direction?
It immediately begins slowing up until its upward velocity becomes zero at the maximum height. At this instant it begins to fall and its velocity increase in a negative direction….
Point 1 | The coin has just left your hand moving upwards |
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Point 6 | The coin is about 3/4 of the way down from the top of its path |
What would happen to the coin after tossing it?
The two outcomes of the toss of a coin are heads or tails. For any individual toss of the coin, the outcome will be either heads or tails. The two outcomes (heads or tails) are therefore mututally exclusive; if the coin comes up heads on a single toss, it cannot come up tails on the same toss.
What happens if you toss a coin on a train?
Whether you toss the coin up from inside the train or while standing on the roof, the coin will land back in your hand (provided you’ve tossed it perfectly vertically). However, in practice, while standing on a fairly fast train’s roof, there’s a lot of wind because you’re moving at high speed.
Why doesn’t the coin land in the same place every time?
The moment you toss the coin, the wind force acts on it, and creates an acceleration in the backward direction, making it go slower than the train (and you). However, it won’t land in exactly the same place from where you tossed it every time! This purely depends on the retarding force acting on the coin – in this case, the wind.
What happens when you toss a coin backwards?
The moment you toss the coin, the wind force acts on it, and creates an acceleration in the backward direction, making it go slower than the train (and you). However, it won’t land in exactly the same place from where you tossed it every time!
Why doesn’t the train accelerate in the opposite direction?
Acceleration is always due to a force, and if you can’t point to a force that causes the acceleration (like: gravity, friction on the rails moving the train forward, etc) then there can’t be acceleration in that direction.