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Winter_Dew
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Hi
I haven't study physics since the one time I took AP Physics 1 three years ago, but my friend presented me this problem. There's a vehicle with passengers on top of it. Does the vehicle have higher velocity after all the passengers jumped off in the same direction and force at the same time or after the passengers jump off one by one (No external forces)? He is taking physics right now and told me the answer was the latter, but I'm not sure I 100% agree with his explanation. This seems like it would be a problem already mentioned, but I couldn't find the thread for it, so can someone explain this to me?
I haven't study physics since the one time I took AP Physics 1 three years ago, but my friend presented me this problem. There's a vehicle with passengers on top of it. Does the vehicle have higher velocity after all the passengers jumped off in the same direction and force at the same time or after the passengers jump off one by one (No external forces)? He is taking physics right now and told me the answer was the latter, but I'm not sure I 100% agree with his explanation. This seems like it would be a problem already mentioned, but I couldn't find the thread for it, so can someone explain this to me?