Two guns are mounted on the top of a hill at height 1 0 m . They fire one shot each with the same speed 5 3 m s − 1 First gun fires at time t = 0 upwards at an angle 6 0 ° with the horizontal. After that firing, at time Δ second gun fires in horizontal direction. If the bullets fired by two guns collide with each other at some time in future, calculate the time interval Δ between the two firings.
Details and assumptions:- 1)Take g = 1 0 m / s
2)Everything is measured in SI units
3)This question is taken from an old IIT test
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First of all for collision time of flight of firstly fired bullet must be greater than the time if flight. Suppose they collide t + Δ time after the first bullet has been fired or t t time after the first bullet has been fired. i . e . t + Δ ≤ g 5 √ 3 s i n ( 6 0 ° ) + ( 5 √ 3 s i n ( 6 0 ° ) ) 2 + 2 g × 1 0 t + Δ ≤ 2 . 3 5 0 7 8 For collision, distance travelled in y dir and distance travelled in x dir will be same for both the bullets. ⇒ 5 √ 3 c o s ( 6 0 ° ) ( t + Δ ) = 5 √ 3 t Here we get, t = Δ . ( i ) And 5 √ 3 s i n ( 6 0 ° ) ( t + Δ ) − g ( t + Δ ) 2 / 2 = − g t 2 / 2 ( i i ) From (i) &(ii) 1 5 = 1 5 t ⇒ t = 1
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the equation i is wrong t=2delta, t=1 is the time when the bullets collide, so delta is 1/2
How did you got that inequality? Please explain. And I think you typoed! It should be time t from the firing of second bullet (and not first)
Can you try to clean up your solution? As problem states, Δ is what we are supposed to find out. I don't understand what is your t is. For me, I get t = 2 and Δ = 1 .
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For capital greek delta, type \Delta, \delta is for small greek letter.
can you please elaborate on how you got the first inequality?@kushal
You really need to specify that the times are from firings to the moment when both shells meet at the same point in space at the same time. That's a detail that's left out, I think.
Thanks going to fix it
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Didn't fix it yet! Me and @Snehal Shekatkar spent 2 hours on solving this level 1 question.
I and @Pranjal Jain rephrased the whole problem now.
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First, we must record our constants:
θ 1 = 6 0 º , θ 2 = 0 º , v 0 = 5 3 m / s and v 0 = 1 0 m / s 2 .
It's important to note that the initial time is diferent to both movements, since they begin at different instants. From the exposed, we have:
t 0 ′ = t 0 + Δ t
We can fix t 0 = 0 and then assemble the parametric equations of the two movements as follows:
x 1 ( t ) = v 0 . c o s θ 1 . ( t − t 0 )
y 1 ( t ) = v 0 . s e n θ 1 . ( t − t 0 ) − 2 g . ( t − t 0 ) 2
x 2 ( t ) = v 0 . c o s θ 2 . ( t − t 0 ′ )
y 2 ( t ) = v 0 . s e n θ 2 . ( t − t 0 ′ ) − 2 g . ( t − t 0 ′ ) 2
At the instant the two shells collide, both vertical and horizontal position are equal. So, we have:
x 1 ( t ) = x 2 ( t )
v 0 . c o s θ 1 . t = v 0 . c o s θ 2 . ( t − Δ t )
5 3 . c o s 6 0 º . t = 5 3 . c o s 0 º . ( t − Δ t )
c o s 6 0 º . t = c o s 0 º . ( t − Δ t )
2 1 . t = 1 . ( t − Δ t )
Δ t = 2 t
y 1 ( t ) = y 2 ( t )
v 0 . s e n θ 1 . t − 2 g . t 2 = v 0 . s e n θ 2 . ( t − Δ t ) − 2 g . ( t − Δ t ) 2
v 0 . s e n θ 1 . t − v 0 . s e n θ 2 . ( t − Δ t ) = 2 g . t 2 − 2 g . ( t − Δ t ) 2
v 0 . [ s e n θ 1 . t − s e n θ 2 . ( t − Δ t ) ] = 2 g . [ t 2 − ( t − Δ t ) 2 ]
v 0 . [ s e n θ 1 . t − s e n θ 2 . ( t − 2 t ) ] = 2 g . [ t 2 − ( t − 2 t ) 2 ]
v 0 . [ s e n θ 1 . t − s e n θ 2 . ( t − 2 t ) ] = 8 3 g t 2
5 3 . 2 3 . t − 0 . ( t − 2 t ) = 8 3 g t 2
2 1 5 . t = 8 3 . 1 0 . t 2
And finally:
t = 2 → Δ t = 2 2 = 1 s