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First Law of Motion

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Why does a ball thrown vertically upwards in a moving train, come back to the thrower's hand?

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The ball gains the same horizontal velocity as that of the train. Hence, it moves the same distance as the train in the horizontal direction and it falls back to the thrower's hand.

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