An airplane travels horizontally at a constant velocity v. An object is dropped from the plane and one second later another object is dropped from the plane. If air resistance is negligible, what happens to the vertical distance between the two objects while they are both falling?

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Paula Luna

24 August, 10:22

An airplane travels horizontally at a constant velocity v. An object is dropped from the plane and one second later another object is dropped from the plane. If air resistance is negligible, what happens to the vertical distance between the two objects while they are both falling?

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Jair Hatfield · Answer 1

the vertical distance between the two object will increase uniformly when they are dropped after a fixed interval of time

Explanation:

Since airplane is moving horizontally with constant speed v

so when object is dropped from the plane then the speed of the object will be same as that of the speed of the airplane

so we can say that two object when dropped after some interval of time then they always lie in same vertical line

now we know that they both have same acceleration in vertical line so the motion of two objects relative to each other in vertical direction is always uniform motion because they have no acceleration with respect to each other

So the vertical distance between the two object will increase uniformly when they are dropped after a fixed interval of time