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When you step off a bus moving at 10 m/s, your horizontal speed when you meet the ground is?

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When you step off a bus moving at 10 m/s, your horizontal speed is exactly 10 m/s.


In fact, initially you are on the bus, and you are moving at horizontal speed of 10 m/s (the speed of the bus). As you step off the bus, you acquire a vertical component of the velocity, but you still have the initial horizontal component of the velocity due to the movement of the bus.

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