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When you step ashore from a stationary boat, it tends to leave the shore. Explain.

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When we step ashore from a rowing boat, it tends to leave the ashore because a force is exerted by us to step ashore and there is equal and opposite reaction on the boat. Thus, it tends to leave the shore.

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