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How would one compute the path of an particle's motion from forces defined in different frames of reference?
I'm trying to write a computer program to render and play-back the path of a particle existing in 2D space given all forces acting on said particle. This is relatively easy to do if all forces are ...
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How to calculate the relative speed when three bodies are involved? [closed]
Two trains A and B start from a station and move in parallel tracks with velocities 40 kmph and 60 kmph respectively. A man sitting in train A. watches a lady who walks inside the train B at a speed ...
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Can we use relative motion if acceleration of two bodies are different?
Suppose, on the $x$-axis, a body $A$ is moving with velocity $v_1$ and acceleration $a_1$, and a second body $B$ is moving with velocity $v_2$ and acceleration $a_2$. $B$ is at a distance of $S$ from $...
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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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How Fast Must a Man Run to See Rain Falling horizontally?
The fact that tan 90° is undefined indicates a key issue in the problem.
Does this mean it is impossible to observe rain falling at 90 degree?
When rain is observed to be falling at 90° with the y-...
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The stupidest question ever on relative kinematics and angular velocity [duplicate]
I am scratching my head on a very basic formula whose meaning escapes my intuition.
On basically all texts of mechanics the following result is derived:
Suppose that a rigid body is moving with ...
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How does relative motion work for an extended object?
I have this conceptual doubt which might be flawed very badly but I don't understand this particular thing. For example, if one end of a stick is moving with velocity $v_1$ and the other with $v_2$, ...
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Question on relative velocity [closed]
If a man is moving on a horizontal belt (with constant velocity w.r.t belt)which is also moving in the same direction with some velocity , then time w.r.t belt and w.r.t ground to travel some ...
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Are all objects in motion?
It seems like everything in the universe is in motion, at least relative to some other object. That leads me to believe that all objects are in motion. But how do we measure motion when we are ...
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The locus of the velocity vectors of a boat navigating in the sea under the presence of a very strong wind?
I already asked a question very similar to this one here and I think the solution would not work when the boat navigates in the sea when a very strong wind blows. That is I am trying to find the ...
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Apparent velocity of winds
If I run north at 10j m/s and the wind is also blowing north at 2j m/s, then do I feel a wind of 8m/s in my face if the relative velocity of the wind to me is -8j m/s ?
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The distance problem [closed]
Say a car has to move from Point A to Point B on the surface of the earth. The car starts from rest at Point A at time $t=0s$ reaches point B at time $t=10s$ with a constant velocity of $1000 m/s$. ...
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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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Wording of Relative Velocity problems [closed]
I've been doing some relative velocity problems. The three main types I do are to do with cars, boats/rivers and planes/crosswind.
I'm fine with cars as the wording is pretty straightforward - it is ...
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To find the displacement of a rolling body
When calculating the displacement of a rolling body do we just calculate the displacement due to Vcom in a particular time t or additionally need to consider also the displacement that may be produced ...
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