Innovative problem

A boy throws a ball at an angle 450 with the horizontal at t = 0 at origin. Path of the ball follows the trajectory y = x – 5x2. The boy start running with a constant velocity 1 m/s along x-axis at t = 0. Take g = 10 m/s2. Choose correct option/s.

(a) Boy and ball are in same vertical line at each instant of time.

(b) At t = 0.1 s, velocity of ball w.r.t. boy = zero.

(c) At t = 0.2 s, ball hits boy.

(d) Ball never hits boy.

11 Answers

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

Easy one I think...

It's (a). Am I right?
Comparing Directly with Trajectory EQuation we have,

\frac{g}{2(u cos \theta) ^{2}} = 5

=> Solving we have u cos \theta = 1

=> I.e., Velocity in Horizontal direction is 1 m/sec == Velocity of boy i Horizontal direction.

Thus Ans is (a).

Am I right?

30
Ashish Kothari ·

I think it should be (d).. How did you approach Vivek?

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

I updated the post!

30
Ashish Kothari ·

Oh yes.. A very stupid calc. mistake..

This is how I did it.

y= x -5x2

At max. horizontal displacement y=0,
5x2=x => x=1/5 (over here, I calculated x=5 :P)

1/5 = u2/g

u = √2

therefore, ucosθ = 1 and hence ans. should be (a)

1
Shams Roy ·

Its multiple correct qs of Test Series from vidyadrishti.com. I also got the same ans. First part is ok. But I think more options are correct.

1
pritishmasti ............... ·

i think ans will be a,b,c

(a) has been explained by vivek

(b) because t=0.2 is time period of the ball

so at t=0.1 ball would be moving horizontally with velocity ucosθ i = i (unit vector i)
and at that instant velocity of boy also = i
so relative velocity = 0

(c) because at t= 0.2 the ball would have covered same horizontal distance as boy

so it would hit the boy

71
Vivek @ Born this Way ·

Yes b and c are is also correct. But d is wrong I think.

6
AKHIL ·

yes
the answers r a , b and c

1
Shams Roy ·

answers should be a, b and c

71
Vivek @ Born this Way ·

Did you get your solutions or cleared your doubt? @Shams

1
Shams Roy ·

i just wanted to check my solutions ... thnx all

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