EBK PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS
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Author: GIANCOLI
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Chapter 3, Problem 20Q
If you are riding on a train that speeds past another train moving in the same direction on an adjacent track, it appears that the other train is moving backward. Why?
This is a question of relative velocity. From the point of view of an observer on the ground, both trains are moving in the same direction (forward), but at different speeds. From your point of view on the faster train, the slower train (and the ground) will appear to be moving backward. (The ground will be moving backward faster than the slower train!)
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