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What s relative motion?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

You are sitting in a moving train. It appears to you as if the trees outside are moving in the opposite direction. This is what we call relative motion. Sun seems moving from east to west daily. But it is only relative to us as we on the earth are moving from west to east.

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