If a man jumps out from a boat, the boat moves backwards. Why?

Statement -1 : When a girl jumps from a boat, the boat slightly moves away from the shore. and Statement-2 : The total linear momentum of an isolated system remain conserved.

When a sailor jumps from a boat to the river bank?

A boat is pushed away from the river bank when a sailor jumps from the boat to the bank. Why?

A 500kg boat has an initial speed of 10 ms^(-1) as it passes under a bridge. At that instant a 50 kg man jumps straight down into the boat from the bridge. The speed of the boat after the man and boat attain a common speed is