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Grade 11Mechanics

A particle is projected at an angle alpha with the horizontal from the foot of the plane ,whose inclination to the horizontal is beta .
show that It will strike the plane at right angles If cot beta=2 tan(alpha - beta)

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11 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Shobhit Varshney
11 Years ago
Dear student,

in such type of problems. choose the coordinate axes as x-axis along the wedge and y-axis normal to wedge. Apply equations of motion , such that when it strikes the plane, y-component of the velocity becomes zero.
Simplify the equations and get the result

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