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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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Velocity of Separation and Relative Velocity
I have some problems in understanding a concept, which has been used in the problem in the picture:
I don't understand what are we actually using to solve this question. Are we using relative ...
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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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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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Question based on relative motion in two dimension
I came across this problem in my work book.
A hunter is riding on an elephant of height $4$ $ m$ moving in straight line with uniform speed of $2$ $ m/s$. A deer running with a speed $V$ at a ...
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Relativity of simultaneity - under what conditions would two events happen simultaneously for frames $S$ and $S'$ when $S'$ is moving relative to $S$?
I feel like I have a fundamental confusion with the following exercise:
I'm confident with my answer in (a), which is that $B$ must be within the light cone of $A$, or that $B$ is causally connected ...
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Changing mass and relative motion
Sand is pouring vertically on a cart at J [kg/sec], from negligable hight. The cart is standing on top of a frictionless surface. What force F do we have to apply to the cart for it to move at a ...
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Simple Rotating frame of reference
I have a car moving in straight line with certain time-varying acceleration and there is another car moving in a curvilinear way along some curved path with some time-varying acceleration. The ...
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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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What does speed of an object relative to water mean?
A swimmer swims with the velocity 1.25 m/s "relative to water". He has to swim across the river which is 150 meters wide. If his direction of velocity is perpendicular to the stream, he is taken away ...
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Velocity as viewed from space
I got a problem which asks if the speed of a car in Oslo is 50km/hr what will be its speed when viewed from space.
I have the relation between the velocities as observed from inertial and non-...
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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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