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41. A boy standing on a long railroad car throws a ballstraight upwards. The car is moving on the horizontalroad with an acceleration of 1 m/s and the projectionvelocity in the vertical direction is 9.8 m/s. How farbehind the boy will the ball fall on the car? |
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Answer» we shall use the following kinematic equation to describe the vertical motion of the ball to to its maximum height (half its journey in flight) v = u + at here v = o u = 9.8 m/s a = -9. m/s2 thus, 0 = 9.8 - 9.8t so, the time taken by the ball to reach maximum height will be t = 9.8 / 9.8 = 1 secs. or total time of flight, T = 2t = 2 secs now, the horizontal distance travelled by car in 2 seconds will be s = uT + (1/2)aT2 here, u = 0 T = 2 secs. a = -1 m/s2 thus, s = 0 + (1/2).-1.22 so, the distance between ball and car will be s = -2m |
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