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I have a silly question. As we all know earth is rotates at a speed of 460 m per sec. So if I throw a ball in the air for 10 sec than the ball must fall 4600 m away from me but these does not happen in real life. Why?

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Goutam Jain
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The ball shares your motion, and so does the air around you. For practical puposes, you are at rest, though at the equator you would be whizzing around at 1,000 mph. If the atmosphere did not fully share your motion, an enormous gust of wind would whisk your ball away, but it doesn't, unless it happens to be a very windy day.

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