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A bowling ball unintentionally falls out of an
airliner's cargo bay as it flies along in a horizontal
direction. As detected by a person standing on the
ground and viewing the plane as in the figure at right.
which path would the bowling ball most closely
follow after leaving the airplane?

A. The bowling bowl moves very quickly in the direction of the plane motion before the ball landed.
B. The bawling bowl moves freely without any force that causes a change in direction.
C. The bawling ball pushed by the reaction force of the air movement.
D. The bawling ball moves due to the resultant force of the vertical and horizontal direction.
E. Another reason

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