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Predict/Calculate To decide who pays for lunch, a passenger on a moving train tosses a coin straight upward with an initial speed of 5.25 m/s and catches it again when it returns to its initial level. From the point of view of the passenger then, the coin’s initial velocity is (5.25 m/s)
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