Question
A gun, kept on a straight horizontal road, is used to hit a car travelling along the same road away from the gun with a uniform speed of 72 km/hr. The car is at a distance is 500 m from the gun, when the gun is fired at an angle of 45° with the horizontal. Find (a) the distance of the car from the gun when the shell hits it; (b) the speed of projection of the shell from the gun. (g = 9.8 m/s2)
Solution
Correct option is
(85.56 m/s, 746.9 m)
The speed of the car v = 72 × (5/18) = 20 m/s. The time of flight of projectile
And range of projectile
According to given problem,
R = 500 + vT
Substituting the values of T and R from Eqns. (1) and (2) in the above,
As negative sign is physically unacceptable,
u = 10 [1.414 + 7.14] = 85.56 m/s.
Substituting the above value of u in Eqn. (2),
SIMILAR QUESTIONS
Q1
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Q2
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Q3
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Q4
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Q5
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Q6
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Q7
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Q8
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Q9
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Q10
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