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The emphasis is on conceptual understanding, analytical thinking and problem solving rather than simply memorising formulas and standard methods.

The objective is to help students understand what they are learning and develop the ability to solve problems they have not seen before.

Motion on Long Railroad Car

A boy standing at the rear end of a long railroad car throws a ball vertically upwards. The car is moving on the straight horizontal road with a deceleration of $1 m/s^2$ and the projection velocity in the vertical direction is 10 m/s. How far ahead of the boy will the ball fall on the car? Assume that the car keeps on moving throughout the motion of the ball. [$g=10 m/s^2$]