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Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Anne on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:53pm.

Suppose you are standing in the aisle of a bus traveling along a straight road at 100km/h, and you hold a pencil still above your head. Then relative to the bus, the velocity of the pencil is 0km/h, and relative to the road, the pencil has a horizontal velocity of?
a. less than 100km/h
b. 100km/h
c. more than 100km/h

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