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A ball rolls off the top of a stairway with a horizontal velocity vo m/s. If the steps are h metre high and b metre wide, show that the ball will hit the edge at nth step if n=2hvo2gb2.

Important Questions on Motion in a Plane

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Two bullets are fired simultaneously, horizontally and with different speeds from the same place. Which bullet will hit the ground first?
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Two bodies are projected at angles θ and 90o-θ to the horizontal with the same speed. The ratio of their times of flight is
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Two balls of mass M and 2M are thrown horizontally with the same initial velocity v0 from top of a tall tower and experience a drag force of -kvk>0 where v is the instantaneous velocity.

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A ball is projected from the ground at an angle of 45° with the horizontal surface. It reaches a maximum height of 120 m and returns to the ground. Upon hitting the ground for the first time, it loses half of its kinetic energy. Immediately after the bounce, the velocity of the ball makes an angle of 30° with the horizontal surface. The maximum height it reaches after the bounce (in meters) is _____________.
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A mobile phone of mass 100 g falls from the hand of a person through the window of a train. The train is accelerating at 1 m s-2 and just 20 s have passed since it left the station from standstill. If the window is 2 m above the ground. With what kinetic energy will the phone will hit the ground? g=10 m s-2
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Two posts of heights 20 m and 10 m are 60 m apart, as shown in the figure. Foodgrains are continuously distributed between the two posts. A crow sitting on top of the taller post wants to pick up a grain and sit on the other post. What should be the distance of the grain it picks from the bottom of the taller post to minimise the total flight length?

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A fighter plane, flying horizontally with a speed 360 km/h at an altitude of 500 m drops a bomb for a target straight ahead of it on the ground. The bomb should be dropped at what approximate distance ahead of the target? Assume that acceleration due to gravity g is 10 ms-2. Also, neglect air drag.
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Two bullets are fired horizontally with different velocities from the same height. Which one will reach the ground first?
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An aeroplane is flying in a horizontal direction with a velocity u and at a height of 2000 m. When it is vertically below a point A on the ground a food packet is released from it. The packet strikes the ground at point B. If AB=3 km and g=10 m s-2, then the value of u is
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Two towers A and B, each of height 20 m are situated a distance 200 m apart. A body thrown horizontally from the top of the tower A with a velocity 20 ms-1 towards the tower B hits the ground at point P and another body thrown horizontally from the top of tower B with a velocity 30 ms-1 towards the tower A hits the ground at point Q. If a car starting from rest from P reaches Q in 10 seconds, the acceleration of the car is _________ (Acceleration due to gravity =10 ms-2)
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A helicopter is flying horizontally with a speed v at an altitude h has to drop a food packet for a man on the ground. What is the distance of helicopter from the man when the food packet is dropped ?
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The velocity of a projectile at the initial point A is 2i^-3j^ m s-1. Its velocity (in m s-1) at point B is

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A bomb is dropped by a fighter plane flying horizontally. To an observer sitting in the plane, the trajectory of the bomb is a :
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A mouse jumps off from the 15th floor of high-rise building and lands 12 m from the building. Assume that each floor is of 3 m height. The horizontal speed with which the mouse jumps is closest to :
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A particle is projected with a velocity v so that its range on a horizontal plane is twice the greatest height attained. Show that the range is 4v25g.

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A ball is projected with kinetic energy E, at an angle of 60° to the horizontal. The kinetic energy of this ball at the highest point of its flight will become :
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A projectile is launched at an angle α with the horizontal with a velocity 20 m s-1. After 10 s, its inclination with horizontal is β. The value of tanβ will be : g=10 m s-2.
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A body is projected horizontally from the top of a tower of height 180 m with a velocity of 20 ms-1. If acceleration due to gravity is 10 ms-2 then match the following.
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(A) Velocity of the body after 1 second (in ms-1)  (I) 5
(B) Horizontal displacement of the body after 1 second (in meters) (ii) 20
(C) Vertical displacement of the body after 1 second (in meters) (iii) 10
(D) Vertical velocity of the body after 1 second (in ms-1) (iv) 22.4

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Two particles are simultaneously projected in the horizontal direction from a point P at a certain height. The initial velocities of the particles are oppositely directed to each other and have magnitude v each. The separation between the particles at a time when their position vectors (drawn from the point P) are mutually perpendicular, is:

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Two balls are projected at an angle θ and (90°-θ) with respect to the horizontal with the same speed. The ratio of their maximum vertical heights is