4.33. A girl riding a bicycle with a speed of 5 m/s towards north direction, observes rain falling vertically down. If she increases her speed to 10 m/s, rain appears to meet her at 45o to the vertical. What is the speed of the rain? In what direction does rainfall as observed by a ground-based observer?
Assume north to be direction and vertically downward to be -.
Let the rain velocity, = a + b.
Given velocity of girl = = (5 m/s)
Let = Velocity of rain w.r.t girl
According to the question rain, appears to fall vertically downward.
Hence, a - 5 = 0 a = 5
Step 2: Find the vertical velocity of rain.
Given the velocity of the girl, = (10 m/s)
According to question rain appears to fall at 45 to the vertical hence
b = a -10 = 5 - 10 = - 5
Hence, velocity of rain = a + b
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