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Grade 11Mechanics

SIR,

WHAT IS THE BASIC APPROACH TO DERIVE EQUATION OF TRAJECTORY IN RIVER SWIMMER CASES ?

SAUMYA

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15 Years agoGrade 11
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15 Years ago

Dear saumya ,

bold letters mean vector down everywhere.

suppose you are given that a swimmer is moving with a velocity of v1 w.r.t to river  and river is at v2. Then as per the concept of relative velocity the velocity of man w.r.t ground  = v1 +v2  

now you break this into x and y components and apply the equation of motion in both directions. this will give you x and y corodinate of man at any time t . remove t from the two equations and you get a relaiton between the x and y coordinate which is the trajectory.

                                                                    
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                          
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