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Which one will be more easier to topple..?
1. A coin which is standing still.
2. A coin which is rolling on a surface without slipping.
and WHY.?

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Himanshu Giria ·

1.)THE COIN STANDING STILL HAS MORE PROBABILITY THAT IT WILL TOPPLE

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Akash Anand ·

The second situation is a gyroscope kind of thing when gravity try to accelerate the axis of rotation, but in first case the coin is still so it is easy to topple.

You can correlate this thing to a force acting on a bady when it is stationary and when it is moving on a circular path.

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