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On a rainy day, a man is running on a hilly terrain in such a way that he is always finding the rain drops hitting him vertically
It is assumed that rainfall is uniform in the whole terrain from O to E(figure attached) When the man was at rest on stretch OA, he found the rainfall at an angle of $30^o $ with the vertical.
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Why do we say the resultant vector as the relative motion in this case?
If a car A moves with acceleration $2m/s^2 $due east and car B moves $1m/s^2 $due north. What would be the acceleration of car B with respect to car A. Now , for this. The solution in my textbook is ...
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Question regarding relative velocity of muzzle bullet? [closed]
A police jeep is chasing with, velocity of 45 km/h a thief in another jeep moving with velocity 153 km/h. Police fires a bullet with muzzle velocity of 180 m/s. The velocity it will strike the car of ...
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Why is direction of train like this for car?
This is an image of a train and a car. T is the train moving towards - $x$ axis and C is the car moving towards $+ y$axis.
So, my teacher made a resultant velocity with $-5\hat i$ and $-20\hat j$. ...
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Is this correct regarding velocity of train?
So many yellow T drawn are just different position of train at different instants.The person is standing still at all those instants at one place.
If a train is moving at 5m/s.
Then for me , can we ...
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Direction of $V_RM$ confusion
So ,please read both the questions . They have similar originate questions that I am facing difficult in.
Let us say rain is falling downwards with v = -5j and a man is moving with a velocity of 2i in ...
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Relative speed of satellites in different orbits [closed]
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"The Hubble Space Telescope is in orbit around the Earth at a height of 560km above the Earth’s surface. Take the radius and mass of the Earth to be 6.4×10^ 6m and 6.0×10^24 kg, ...
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I want to know the difference in two methods I have solved [closed]
A thief is driving away on a straight road in jeep moving with a speed of 9 m/s. A police man chases him on a motorcycle moving at a speed of 10 m/s. If the instantaneous separation of the jeep from ...
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Why does the relative motion go wrong here?
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A rocket is moving in a gravity free space with a constant acceleration of 2ms−2, along + x direction (see figure). The length of a chamber inside the rocket is 4 m. A ball is ...
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Motion of Points around a Triangle [closed]
I came across this problem in the book "Problems in General Physics by IE Irodov"-
Three points are located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose side equals s. They all start ...
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Velocity Question from grandparent
My Grandparent asked me this question a few years ago, and I am getting around to giving him an answer, but I don't know the answer. Can anyone help?
"A pickup truck is speeding along a highway ...
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Change in Kinetic Energy in two different reference frames (one of them non-inertial) [duplicate]
Let's say an object of mass 10 kg is fired from a cart of mass 90 kg. The object and the cart, of total mass 100 kg were initially moving together with a speed of 10 m/s. Then, the object is fired by ...
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Why is heat energy dissipation in two intervals frame dependent?
The question asks for heat produced in the given specific conditions. It seems like an application of the work-energy theorem with friction doing work on the block and dissipating the heat in the ...
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Upstream and downstream problem using relative velocity
On a river coast, there is a port; when a barge passed the port, a motor boat departed from the port to a village at the distance $S_1 = 15$ km downstream. It reached its destination after $t = 45$ ...
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Forces acting on a book on a moving table [closed]
I’m studying for an upcoming physics exam and one of the sample questions essentially boils down to this: a book (not clamped on) is on a table that is moving to the left. Is there a force of static ...
