While flying horizontally in an airplane, you notice that a string dangling from the overhead luggage compartment hangs at rest at 15° away from the vertical toward the front of the plane

Using this observation, you can conclude that the airplane is
A) moving forward.
B) accelerating forward.
C) not accelerating because the string is at rest.
D) accelerating backward.
E) moving backward.


D

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