A package is dropped from an airplane. Which of the paths (relative to a person

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A package is dropped from an airplane. Which of the paths (relative to a person on the ground) shown in the diagram, would the package most probable to follow? Clothes washers remove the water of the clothes by spinning the drum at a high speed. When the drum spins, the clothes tend to stick to it. The clothes stick to the drum because the drum is sticky there is a centrifugal force on the clothes, pushing the clothes outward of the tendency of the clothes to move in a straight line due to inertia

Explanation / Answer

c

It's due to inertia of motion and the package must follow a parabolic path under gravity.These conditions are satisfied best by path C.

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