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Classical Mechanics Level 2

A basketball player approaches a plane mirror with velocity u u , what is the velocity of his mirror image with respect to himself?

u u 1 2 u \frac{1}{2}u 0 0 2 u 2u

Aanchal Shahi by Aanchal Shahi , 27, India

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1 solution

Harshi Singh
Feb 15, 2016

As the velocity is always relative in case of mirror's . Thus, here opposite direction so velocity of player and image will be added so it gives:: v + v = 2 v v+v=2v

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I thought it was just 'u' because technically the image is just on a stationary 2 dimensional mirror. heh

Tristan Goodman - 2 years, 5 months ago

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