Two marbles are rolling along parallel tracks (which may or may not be inclined). A stroboscopic photograph showing a top view of the positions of the marbles at equally spaced instants of time looks like this:

At what instant(s) of time do the marbles have the same instantaneous velocity?





A. At time tB

B. At time tG

C. At both tB and tG

D. Some instant between tC and tD

E. Some instant between tD and tE

F. Roughly time tD


F. Roughly time tD

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