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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 -

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Parabola, because when the coin is dropped at a particular point, it has the same velocity as the running train. So, by Newtons first law, it continues its motion horizontally with that velocity.

A a parabola

B a horizontal straight line

C a vertical straight line

D a circle

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