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An airplane moves in a northwesterly direction at 125 mi/hr relative to the ground, due to the fact there is a westerly wind of 50 mi/hr relative to the ground. How fast and in what direction would the plane have traveled if there were no wind?

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A fighter jet is flying horizontally at a certain altitude with a speed of 200 m s-1. When it passes directly overhead an anti-aircraft gun, a bullet is fired from the gun, at an angle θ with the horizontal, to hit the jet. If the bullet speed is 400 m s-1, the value of θ will be _____ °.
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The time period of a particle P moving along a circular path of radius 1 cm is π s.  Another particle Q starts from rest at a point A and travelling along a straight line path reaches the point B in 2 s. If AB=12 cm and the particles P and Q are respectively at D and B at an instant shown in the figure, the acceleration of particle Q with respect to particle P is _______cm s-2. (Points A,B,C,D and O lie along the same straight line)

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Two boys are standing at ends A and B of a ground where AB=200 m. The boy at B starts running in a direction perpendicular to AB with a speed of 6 m s-1. The body at A starts simultaneously with a velocity of 10 m s-1 and catches the other at time 't' where the time 't' is
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When a car is at rest, its driver sees rain drops falling on it vertically. When driving the car with speed v, he sees that rain drops coming at an angle 60 from the horizontal. On further increasing the speed of the car to 1+βv, this angle changes to 45. The value of β is close to :
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In U.C.M., when time interval δ0 , the angle between change in velocity δv and linear velocity (v) will be
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The stream of a river is flowing with a speed of 2 km h-1. A swimmer can swim at a speed of 4 km h-1. The direction of the swimmer with respect to the flow of the river, to cross the river straight, is
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Ship A is moving westwards with a speed of 20 km h-1 and another ship B which is at 200 km south of A is moving Northwards with a speed of 10 km h-1. The time after which the distance between them is shortest and the shortest distance between them are respectively
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A swimmer wants to cross a river from point A to point B. Line AB makes an angle of 30° with the flow of the river. The magnitude of the velocity of the swimmer is the same as that of the river. The angle θ with the line AB should be _______°, so that the swimmer reaches point B.

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A person swims in a river aiming to reach exactly on the opposite point on the bank of a river. His speed of swimming is 0.5 m s-1 at an angle of 120° with the direction of flow of water. The speed of water is
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A boy runs on a horizontal road with a speed of 4 m s-1 while it is raining. He sees that the rain is making an angle θ with the vertical while running from west to east. However, when he runs from east to west, the angle is α. The rain is pouring down at an angle 45° with the vertical and at a speed of 8 m s-1 as shown in the figure. The ratio tanθtanα is,
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Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 12 m s-1. A woman rides a bicycle with a speed of 12 m s-1 in east to west direction. What is the direction in which she should hold her umbrella?
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The speed of a swimmer in still water is 20 m s-1. The speed of river water is 10 m s-1 and is flowing due east. If he is standing on the south bank and wishes to cross the river along the shortest path, the angle at which he should make his strokes with respect to the north is given by
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A ball is dropped from a bridge that is 45 m above the water. It falls directly into a boat which is moving with constant velocity. The boat is 12 m away from the point of impact when the ball is dropped. The speed of the boat is (Take g=10 m s-2)
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A person of height 1.6 m is walking away from a lamp post of height 4 m along a straight path on the flat ground. The lamp post and the person are always perpendicular to the ground. If the speed of the person is 60 cm s1, the speed of the tip of the person’s shadow on the ground with respect to the person is _____ cm s1.
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A person is swimming with a speed of 10 m s-1 at an angle of 120° with the flow and reaches to a point directly opposite on the other side of the river. The speed of the flow is x m s-1. The value of x to the nearest integer is ______.
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A person can row a boat at 10 km h-1 in still water. He takes two and half hours to row from A to B and back. If the distance between A and B is 12 km, then the speed of the stream is :
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A motorboat whose speed is 15 km h-1 in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. What is the speed of the stream (in km h-1)?
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Object A moves uniformly with a constant speed v to reach object B, while B in turn moves rectilinearly with a uniform velocity of u<v. At the initial moment v is perpendicular to u and the positions are separated by a distance l. The object A meets the object B at time t. The value of t  is
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Ship A is sailing towards north-east with velocity) v=30i^+50j^ km h-1  where i^ points east and j^, north. The ship B is at a distance of 80 km east and 150 km north of Ship A and is sailing towards the west at 10 km h-1. A will be at the minimum distance from B in:
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A ship A is moving Westwards with a speed of 10 km h-1 and a ship B 100 km south of A , is moving Northwards with a speed of 10 km h-1. The time after which the distance between them becomes shortest, is: