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Grade 11General Physics

velocity of river is 2 m/sec and boat moves with velocity 5 m/sec making an angle 120 degree with the river flow.find out the time taken by the boat to coss the river .find out drift.width of river is 100 m.

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10 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
Dear student

speed against flow 5 cos 60
speed perpendicular to flow 5 sin 60

time take = 100/(5 sin 60)

drift = ((5 cos 60)-2) * time taken