Question
A boy sitting in a train moving with a uniform velocity
drops a coin outside. A man standing outside the train will find the trajectory of the coin to be -Solution
Parabola, because when the coin is dropped at a particular point, it has the same velocity as the running train. So, by Newton's first law, it continues its motion horizontally with that velocity.
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