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how come if you jump in a train you will land in the same spot but if you jump on top of the train you won't? i tried to make it make sense.
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how come if you jump in a train you will land in the same spot but if you jump on top of the train you won't? i tried to make it make sense.

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Well, it has to do something with the force of the train. It's pulling you, a force of gravity

However jumping off results in a different sort of energy, the train know is moving farther away as you jump down. So you end up in a different place

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