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Grade 11Mechanics

a rope passing over a pulley has a ladder wid a man of mass 'm' on one of its ends and a counterbalancing mass'M'on its other end.the man climbs with a velocity vr relative to ladder.ignoring the masses of the pulley and the rope as well as the friction on the pulley axis,the velocity of centre of mass of the system is???

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15 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Aman  Bansal
15 Years ago

dear kan parashar,

the velocity of centre of mass

 = m*vr/(m+M)

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