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Chapter 3, Problem 19

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Problem 19CQ

If someone is riding in the back of a pickup truck and throws a softball straight backward, is it possible for the ball to fall straight down as viewed by a person standing at the side of the road? Under what condition would this occur? How would the motion of the ball appear to the person who threw it?

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QUESTION:

Problem 19CQ

If someone is riding in the back of a pickup truck and throws a softball straight backward, is it possible for the ball to fall straight down as viewed by a person standing at the side of the road? Under what condition would this occur? How would the motion of the ball appear to the person who threw it?

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In this question, we need to check whether the ball thrown backwards by a person at the back of the pickup truck will look as if it was thrown straight down as seen by the person at the roadside. We need to state situations when such case will occur. We also need to specify the trajectory of the ball in this case as seen by an observer in the road side.

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