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You are waiting for a train on a railway platform. Your three-year-old niece is standing on your iron trunk containing the luggage. Why does the trunk not recoil as she jumps off on the platform?

You are waiting for a train on a railway

platform. Your three-year-old niece is

standing on your iron trunk containing the

luggage. Why does the trunk not recoil as

she jumps off on the platform?

Grade:11

2 Answers

Apoorva Arora IIT Roorkee
askIITians Faculty 181 Points
9 years ago
It happens because of the inertia of the trunk. Inertia is a property of mass. Since, the mass of the trunk is much greater than that of the kid, It does not recoil and remains fixed.
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Apoorva Arora
IIT Roorkee
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Sonia singhmar
20 Points
6 years ago
It happens because of the inertia of the trunk. Inertia is a property of mass. Since, the mass of the trunk is much greater than that of the kid, It does not recoil and remains fixed.

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