Before the time of Galileo and Newton, some learned scholars thought that a ston

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Before the time of Galileo and Newton, some learned scholars thought that a stone dropped from the top of a tall mast of a moving ship would fall vertically and hit the deck behind the mast by a distance equal to how far the ship had moved forward while the stone was falling.
In light of your understanding of Newton’s first law, what is true?

1. Everyone on the ship will see the stone fall vertically if released from rest.
2. If the ship speed is fast enough, the stone will drop into the sea.
3. The stone will have a horizontal motion;it will hit the deck in front of the mast.
4. The stone will fall in some trajectory depending on the speed of the ship.
5. All are wrong.


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Explanation / Answer

1. Everyone on the ship will see the stone fall vertically if released from rest since the stone since even the stone will have the same horizontal velocity as the ship when it is droped and hence even it will travel the same distance as ship has covered so as everyone on ship and hennce relative horizontal veloccity is zero

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