A Bird Sitting on the Limb of a Tree Is

question 45

Multiple Choice

A bird sitting on the limb of a tree is moving about 30 km/s with respect to the Sun. If the bird takes 1 second to drop down to a worm below, the worm would be 30 km downrange from the bird when it reached the ground. This faulty reasoning is best countered with Newton's

• A)law of inertia.
• B)law of gravity.
• C)laws of motion.
• D)none of the above

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