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Question
'When a hanging carpet is beaten with a stick, the dust particles start coming out of it'. This phenomenon can be best explained by making use of :
Options
Newton's third law of motion
Newton's law of gravitation
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's second law of motion
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Solution
Newton’s first law of motion
This is because beating the carpet with a stick makes the carpet move to-and-fro quickly, but the dust particles tend to remain at rest due to their inertia and get separated from the carpet.
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