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2. A table cloth can be pulled out from underneath a bunch of dishes without knocking all the

dishes over. Using your understanding of Newton's first law of motion explain how this can
happen.

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It is called inertia. When you pull the table cloth off the table full of dishes, the dishes stay put.
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