When you look out the window of a car that is travelling 100 kilometres per hour,close objects appear:
A)to be moving faster than far ones.
B)to be moving slower than far ones.
C)to be moving at the same speed as far ones.
D)to be stationary and the far ones appear to be moving in the opposite direction as the car.

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Close objects appear to be moving faster than far ones because they pass by more quickly in the field of vision as the car travels forward at a constant speed of 100 kilometres per hour. This is known as the parallax effect. Far objects, on the other hand, appear to move more slowly because they are farther away and take longer to pass by in the field of vision.

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