Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires?

Acricket ball of 70g moving with a velocity of 0.5 m/s is stopped by a player in 0.5s what is the force applied to stop the ball

Figure 9 on page 362 shows various motions of balls. the curved path followed by the yellow ball in b in picture b is result of a) inertia b) centripetal motion c) gravity and horizontal velocity d) linear motion

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