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torresmido
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Homework Statement
Your airplane is caught in a brief, violent downdraft. To your amazement, the pretzels on your seatback tray rise vertivally, and you estimate their upward acceleration relative to the plane at 2 m/s^2. What's the donward acceleration of the plane?
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The Attempt at a Solution
what I know is that if the plane is in such a situation it's subject to the gravitational force only, but why we're given this pretzels acceleration?