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A car travels with a speed of 40 km h-1. Rain drops are falling at a constant speed vertically. The traces of the rain on the side windows of the car make an angle of 30° with the vertical. The magnitude of the velocity of the rain with respect to the car is

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Important Questions on Motion in a Plane

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Object A moves uniformly with a constant speed v to reach object B, while B in turn moves rectilinearly with a uniform velocity of u<v. At the initial moment v is perpendicular to u and the positions are separated by a distance l. The object A meets the object B at time t. The value of t  is
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A person swims in a river aiming to reach exactly on the opposite point on the bank of a river. His speed of swimming is 0.5 m s-1 at an angle of 120° with the direction of flow of water. The speed of water is
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A boy runs on a horizontal road with a speed of 4 m s-1 while it is raining. He sees that the rain is making an angle θ with the vertical while running from west to east. However, when he runs from east to west, the angle is α. The rain is pouring down at an angle 45° with the vertical and at a speed of 8 m s-1 as shown in the figure. The ratio tanθtanα is,
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A person is swimming with a speed of 10 m s-1 at an angle of 120° with the flow and reaches to a point directly opposite on the other side of the river. The speed of the flow is x m s-1. The value of x to the nearest integer is ______.
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The speed of a swimmer in still water is 20 m s-1. The speed of river water is 10 m s-1 and is flowing due east. If he is standing on the south bank and wishes to cross the river along the shortest path, the angle at which he should make his strokes with respect to the north is given by
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Two boys are standing at ends A and B of a ground where AB=200 m. The boy at B starts running in a direction perpendicular to AB with a speed of 6 m s-1. The body at A starts simultaneously with a velocity of 10 m s-1 and catches the other at time 't' where the time 't' is
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A ball is dropped from a bridge that is 45 m above the water. It falls directly into a boat which is moving with constant velocity. The boat is 12 m away from the point of impact when the ball is dropped. The speed of the boat is (Take g=10 m s-2)
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A person can row a boat at 10 km h-1 in still water. He takes two and half hours to row from A to B and back. If the distance between A and B is 12 km, then the speed of the stream is :
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Ship A is sailing towards north-east with velocity) v=30i^+50j^ km h-1  where i^ points east and j^, north. The ship B is at a distance of 80 km east and 150 km north of Ship A and is sailing towards the west at 10 km h-1. A will be at the minimum distance from B in:
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The stream of a river is flowing with a speed of 2 km h-1. A swimmer can swim at a speed of 4 km h-1. The direction of the swimmer with respect to the flow of the river, to cross the river straight, is
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A boat is moving from the east bank to the west bank on a south flowing river. If the speed of the boat is 4 km/h and that of the river is 3 km/h. If the width of the river is 2 km, the distance travelled by the boat is
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Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 12 m s-1. A woman rides a bicycle with a speed of 12 m s-1 in east to west direction. What is the direction in which she should hold her umbrella?
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A swimmer wants to cross a river from point A to point B. Line AB makes an angle of 30° with the flow of the river. The magnitude of the velocity of the swimmer is the same as that of the river. The angle θ with the line AB should be _______°, so that the swimmer reaches point B.

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The time period of a particle P moving along a circular path of radius 1 cm is π s.  Another particle Q starts from rest at a point A and travelling along a straight line path reaches the point B in 2 s. If AB=12 cm and the particles P and Q are respectively at D and B at an instant shown in the figure, the acceleration of particle Q with respect to particle P is _______cm s-2. (Points A,B,C,D and O lie along the same straight line)

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A motorboat whose speed is 15 km h-1 in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. What is the speed of the stream (in km h-1)?
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A river has a steady speed of v. A man swims upstream at a distance of d and swims back to the starting point in total time t. The man can swim at a speed of 2v in still water. If the time taken by the man in still water is t0 to complete the same length of swim, then tt0 is
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A fighter jet is flying horizontally at a certain altitude with a speed of 200 m s-1. When it passes directly overhead an anti-aircraft gun, a bullet is fired from the gun, at an angle θ with the horizontal, to hit the jet. If the bullet speed is 400 m s-1, the value of θ will be _____ °.
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In U.C.M., when time interval δ0 , the angle between change in velocity δv and linear velocity (v) will be
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A girl standing on road holds her umbrella at 45° with the vertical to keep the rain away. If she starts running without umbrella with a speed of 152 km h-1, the rain drops hit her head vertically. The speed of rain drops with respect to the moving girl is
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When a car is at rest, its driver sees rain drops falling on it vertically. When driving the car with speed v, he sees that rain drops coming at an angle 60 from the horizontal. On further increasing the speed of the car to 1+βv, this angle changes to 45. The value of β is close to :