Question

A sailor drops a pair of binoculars from the "crows nest" at the top of a sailing ship's mast. When the shim is at rest the binoculars land at the base of the mast. If the ship is moving forward with constant velocity, where do the binoculars land:

Select one or more:

a. At the base of the mast

b. behind the mast (toward the back of the ship)

c. In front of the mast (toward the front of the ship)

Answer 1

Option (a) is correct. As the ship moves foreward with constant velocity and since the binacular is droped from the cows nest which is on ship shares shame horizontal speed as ship posses ..due to which distance travelled by ship and binacular in time of fall is same causing the binacular to fall at the base of mast again.