
Rain is falling vertically with a velocity of . A man is walking with a speed of in the north to south direction. What is the direction in which he should hold his umbrella to save himself from the rain?

Important Questions on Kinematics II
(a) Find the velocity with which the man should move so that rain appears to fall vertically to him.
(b) Now if he further increases his speed, rain again appears to fall at with the vertical. Find his new velocity.

A person standing on a road has to hold his umbrella at with the vertical to keep the rain away. He throws the umbrella and starts running at . He find that rain drops are hitting his head vertically. Find the speed of the rain drops with respect to
(a) the road and
(b) the moving person.

A man is coming down an incline of angle . When he walks with speed , he has to keep his umbrella vertical to protect himself from rain. The actual speed of rain is . At what angle with vertical should he keep his umbrella when he is at rest so that he does not get drenched?


(a) If the speed of the plane (its speed in still air) is , in which direction should the pilot head?
(b) What is the speed of the plane with respect to ground? Illustrate with a vector diagram.

A helicopter flies horizontally with constant velocity in a direction east of north between two points and , at distance apart. Wind is blowing from south with constant speed , the speed of helicopter relative to air is , where . Find the speed of the helicopter along . The helicopter returns from to with same speed relative to air in same wind. Find the total time for the journeys.

and are four trees, located at the vertices of a square. Wind blows from to with uniform speed. The ratio of times of flight of a bird from to and from to is . At what angle should the bird fly from the direction of wind flow, in order that it starts from and
(a) reaches ,
(b) reaches ?

Two particles are located on a horizontal plane at a distance . At both the particles are simultaneously projected at angle with velocities and , respectively.
Find the minimum separation between them during motion.
At what time is the separation between them minimum?
