A boy sitting on the top most berth in the compartment of a train which is just going to stop on a railway station, drops an apple aiming at the open hand of his brother situated vertically below his

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A boy sitting on the top most berth in the compartment of a train which is just going to stop on a railway station, drops an apple aiming at the open hand of his brother situated vertically below his hands at a distance of about 2 m . The apple will fall -

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The train is decelerating as it approaches the station. When the apple is dropped, it retains the forward momentum it had just before being released. Due to the train's deceleration, the brother's hand moves backward relative to the apple's initial forward velocity. Therefore, the apple will fall slightly ahead of his brother's hand, in the direction of the train's original motion.

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