1. Find the resultant of three vectors.
a vertical wall moving towards it at
2. An aircraft flies at 400 km/h in still air. A wind
of 200√2km/h is blowing from the south
towards north. The pilot wishes to travel from A
to a point B north east of A. Find the direction
he must steer and time of his journey if AB =
1000 km.
3.A river 400m wide is flowing at a rate
of 2.0m/s. A boat is sailing at a velocity
of 10.0m/s with respect to the water In a
direction perpendicular to the river.
(a) Find the time taken by the boat to reach the
opposite bank.
(b) How far from the point directly opposite to
the starting point does the boat reach the
opposite bank?
4. An aeroplane has to go from a point A to
another point B, 500 km away due 300 east of
north. A wind is blowing due north at as speed
of 20 m/s. The air-speed of the plane is 150
m/s.
(a) Find the directiion in which the pilot should
head the plane to reach the point B.
(b) Find the time taken by the plane to go from
A to B.
5. A ball of radius R = 10.0 cm rolls without
slipping down an inclined plane so that its
centre moves with constant acceleration w =
2.50 cm/s2; t = 2.00 s after the beginning of
motion its position corresponds to that shown in
Fig. 1.7. Find: (IRODOV)
(a) the velocities of the points A, B, and O;
(b) the accelerations of these points.
6. A man crosses a river in a boat. If he cross
the river in minimum time he takes 10 min with
a drift
120 m. If he crosses the river taking shortest
path, he takes 12.5 min, find
(a) width of the river
(b) velocity of the boat with respect to water
(c) speed of the current
7. A river is 20 m wide. River speed is 3 m/s. A
boat starts with velocity 2 m/s at angle 45° from
the river current (relative to river)
(a) Find the time taken by the boat to reach the
opposite bank.
(b) How far from the point directly opposite to
the starting point does the boat reach the
opposite bank?
8. A ship X moves due north at 30 km/h; a ship
Y moves North 60 degrees from the West at 20
km/h. Find velocity of Y relative to X in
magnitude and direction. If Y is 10km due east
of X at this instant find the closest distance of
approach of the two ships.
9.A bullet of mass 25g and travelling
horizontally at a speed of 200 m/s imbeds in a
wooden block of mass 5kg suspended by cords
3m long. How far will the block swing from its
position of rest before beginning to return?
10. A ship A is moving eastward with a speed of
15km/h and another ship B, at a given instant
10km east of A, is moving southwards with a
speed of 20 km/h. How long after this instant
will the ships be nearest to each other, how far
apart will they be then and in what direction will
B be sighted from A?
11. A small ball thrown at an initial velocity
Vo at an angle alpha to the horizontal strikes
a horizontal velocity v and is bounced to
the point from which it was thrown.
Determine the time t from the beginning
of motion to the moment of impact, neglecting
friction losses.(IRODOV)
12. A small ball moves at a constant velocity V
1/calong a horizontal surface and at point A falls
into a vertical well of depth H and radius r. The
velocity V of the ball forms an angle alpha with
the diameter of the well drawn through point
A.(IRODOV)
Determine the relation between V, H, r,
and a for which the ball can "get out" of
the well after elastic impacts with the walls.
Friction losses should be neglected.
13. A helicopter takes off along the vertical
with an acceleration a = 3 m/s2 and
Zero initial velocity. In a certain time t1,
the pilot switches off the engine. At the
point of take-off, the sound dies away in a
time t2 =3 0 s.(IRODOV)
Determine the velocity V of the helicopter
at the moment when its engine is switched off,
assuming that the velocity C
of sound is 320 m/s.
14. A person walks up a stalled 15 m long
escalator in 90 s. When standing on the same
escalator,
now moving, the person is carried up in 60 s.
How much time would it take that person to
walk
up the moving escalator? Does the answer
depend on the length of the
escalator?(IRODOV)
15. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower.
When it crosses a point 5 m below the top,
another
stone is let fall from a point 25 m below the top.
Both stones reach the bottom of the tower
simultaneously. Find the height of the tower.
Take g = 10 2 m/ s(IRODOV)
16. An aeroplane has to go from a point P to
another point Q, 1000 km away due north. Wind
is
blowing due east at a speed of 200 km/h. The
air speed of plane is 500 km/h.
(a) Find the direction in which the pilot should
head the plane to reach the point Q.
(b) Find the time taken by the plane to go from
P to Q.
17. A train stopping at two stations 4 km apart
takes 4 min on the journey from one of the
station to the other. Assuming that it first
accelerates with a uniform acceleration x and
then that of uniform retardation y, prove that
1/x + 1/y = 2
18. A thief in a stolen car passes through a
police check post at his top speed of 90 kmh−1.
A motorcycle cop, reacting after 2 s,
accelerates from rest at 5 ms−2. His top speed
being 108 kmh−1 . Find the maximum
separation between policemen and thief.
19. A car is to be hoisted by elevator to the
fourth floor of a parking garage, which is 14m
above the ground. If the elevator can have
maximum acceleration of 0.2 m/ s2 and
maximum deceleration of 0.1 m/ s2and can
reach a maximum speed of 2.5 m/s, determine
the shortest time to make the lift, starting from
rest and ending at rest.
20. The slopes of wind screen of two cars are
a1 = 30° and a2 = 15° respectively. At what
ratio v1 and v2 of the velocities of the cars will
their drivers see the hail stones bounced back
by the wind screen on their cars in vertical
direction? Assume hail stones fall vertically
downwards and collisions
to be elastic.
21. A rocket is fired vertically upwards with a
net acceleration of 4 m/s2
and initial velocity zero. After 5 s its fuel is
finished and it decelerates with g. At
the highest point its velocity becomes zero.
Then, it accelerates downwards with
acceleration g and return back to ground. Plot
velocity-time and
displacement-time graphs for the complete
journey. Take g = 10 m/s2 .
22. In a car race, car A takes a time t less than
car B at the finish and
passes the finishing point with speed v more
than that of the car B. Assuming
that both the cars start from rest and travel with
constant acceleration a1 and a2
respectively. Show that v = (a1 a2 )^1/2T
23. Three particles A, B and C are situated at
the vertices of an
equilateral triangle ABC of side d at time t = 0.
Each of the particles moves with
constant speed v. A always has its velocity
along AB, B along BC and C along
CA. At what time will the particles meet each
other?
24. A man wants to reach point B on the
opposite bank of a river
flowing at a speed as shown in figure. What
minimum speed relative to water
should the man have so that he can reach point
B? In which direction should he
swim?
25. A stone is dropped from a balloon going up
with a uniform velocity of 5.0 m/s. If the balloon
was 50 m high when the stone was dropped,
find its height when the stone hits the ground.
Take g = 10 m/s 2.
26. A football is kicked with a velocity of 20 m/s
at an angle
of 45° with the horizontal. (a) Find the time
taken by the
ball to strike the ground. (b) Find the maximum
height
it reaches. (c) How far away from the kick does
it hit the
ground ? Take g = 10 m/s 2.
27. A helicopter on flood relief mission, flying
horizontally with a speed u at an altitude H, has
to drop a food packet for a victim standing on
the ground. At what distance from the victim
should the packet be dropped ? The victim
stands in the vertical plane of the helicopter’s
motion.
28. A man can swim in still water at a speed of
3 km/h. He wants to cross a river that flows at 2
km/h and reach the point directly opposite to his
starting point.
(a) In which direction should he try to swim
(that is, find the angle his body makes with the
river flow) ?
(b) How much time will he take to cross the
river if the river is 500 m wide ?
29. A man running on a horizontal road at 8
km/h finds the rain falling vertically. He
increases his speed to 12 km/h and find that the
drops make angle 30° with the vertical. Find the
speed and direction of the rain with respect to
the road.
30. A man standing on a road has to hold his
umbrella at 30° with the vertical to keep the rain
away. He throws the umbrella and starts
running at 10 km/h. He finds that raindrops are
hitting his head vertically. Find the speed of
raindrops with respect to
(a) the road
, (b) the moving man.
31) A car travelling at 60 km/h overtakes
another car ravelling at 42 km/h. Assuming
each car to be 5.0 mlong, find the time taken
during the overtake and the total road distance
used for the overtake.
32) A staircase contains three steps each 10
cm high and 20 cm wide. What should be the
minimum horizontal velocity of a ball rolling off
the uppermost plane so as to hit directly the
lowest plane ?
33) An elevator car whose floor-to-ceiling
distance is equal to 2.7 m starts ascending with
constant acceleration 1.2 m/s2; 2.0 s
after the start a bolt begins falling from the
ceiling of the car. Find:
(a) the bolt's free fall time;
(b) the displacement and the distance covered
by the bolt during
the free fall in the reference frame fixed to the
elevator shaft
34. A point traversed half a circle of radius R =
160 cm during time interval x = 10.0 s.
Calculate the following quantities averaged
over that time:
(a) the mean velocity (v);
(b) the modulus of the mean velocity vector
(c) the modulus of the mean vector of the total
acceleration w.
if the point moved with constant tangent
acceleration.
39. A passenger train of length 60 m travels at a
speed of 80 km/hr. Another freight train of
length 120 m travels at a speed of 30 km/hr.
The ratio of times taken by the passenger train
to completely cross the freight train when :
(i) they are moving in the same direction and
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point with the same speed u such that they
have the same range R, but different maximum
heights h1 and h2. Which of the following is
correct?

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an angle 60° with ground level. But he finds the
aeroplane right vertically above his position. If v
is the speed of sound, then speed of the plane
is
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