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A ball is thrown onto a rough floor with speed u at angle θ=45°. If it rebounds with speed v at the same angle ϕ=45°. Find the coefficient of kinetic friction μ between the floor and the ball. The coefficient of restitution, e=0.6

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Sand is falling on a flat car being pulled with constant speed. The rate of mass falling on the cart is constant. Then the horizontal component of force exerted by the falling sand on the cart,

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On a horizontal frictionless frozen lake, a girl (36 kg) and a box (9 kg) are connected to each other by means of a rope. Initially, they are 20 m apart. The girl exerts a horizontal force on the box pulling it towards her. How far has the girl travelled when she meets the box?
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A clay ball of mass m and speed v strikes another metal ball of same mass m, which is at rest. They stick together after the collision. The kinetic energy of the system after collision is,
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A man inside a freely falling box throws a heavy ball towards a side wall. The ball keeps on bouncing between the opposite walls of the box. We neglect air resistance and friction. Which of the following figures depicts the motion of the centre of mass of the entire system (man, the ball and the box)?
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A ball is thrown horizontally from a height with a certain initial velocity at time t=0. The ball bounces repeatedly from the ground with the coefficient of restitution less than 1 as shown.

Neglect air resistance and taking the upward direction as positive, which figure qualitatively depicts the vertical component of the ball's velocity vy as a function of time t? 

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A uniform square wooden sheet of side a has its centre of mass located at point O as shown in the figure on the left. A square portion of side b of this sheet is cut out to produce and L-shaped sheet as shown in the figure on the right.

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The centre of mass of the L-shaped sheet lies at the point P (in the diagram) when,

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A uniform thin rod of length 2L and mass m lies on a horizontal table. A horizontal impulse J is given to the rod at one end. There is no friction. The total KE of the rod just after the impulse will be,
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Two uniform plates of the same thickness and area but of different materials, one shaped like an isosceles triangle and the other shaped like a rectangle are joined together to form a composite body as shown in the figure. If the centre of mass of the composite body is located at the midpoint of their common side, the ratio between masses of the triangle to that of the rectangle is,

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