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A body is thrown up which eventually comes down. Taking air drag proportional to speed into consideration, it's velocity-time (v-t) graph is best represented by

A body is thrown up which eventually comes down. Taking air drag proportional to speed into consideration, it's velocity-time (v-t) graph is best represented by

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Eshan
askIITians Faculty 2095 Points
5 years ago
Dear studnent,

Since air drag is proportional to speed, when the particle is in upwards motion, the acceleration downwards decreases. Hence the slope of v-t curve would decrease.

When coming down, the net acceleeration downwards decreasees again as time increases and so does the slope of v-t curve.

Hence correct answer is option 2.

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