
A small steel ball is at rest on the edge of a table of height . Another steel ball used as the bob of a meter-long simple pendulum, is released from rest with pendulum suspension horizontal & swings against as shown in figure. The masses of the balls are identical & collision is elastic. Considering motion of only up until the moment it first hits the ground.


Important Questions on Motion in a Plane


Two balls of mass and are thrown horizontally with the same initial velocity from top of a tall tower and experience a drag force of where is the instantaneous velocity.
Then,



Two posts of heights and are 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?






The velocity of a projectile at the initial point is . Its velocity (in ) at point is



A particle is projected with a velocity so that its range on a horizontal plane is twice the greatest height attained. Show that the range is .



List-I | List-II | ||
Velocity of the body after second in ) | (I) | ||
Horizontal displacement of the body after second (in meters) | (ii) | ||
Vertical displacement of the body after second (in meters) | (iii) | ||
Vertical velocity of the body after second in ) | (iv) |
The correct answer is

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


