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Posted by Ian Hart on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 11:37am.

A car is moving along a straight horizontal road at 82 km/h and rain is falling vertically downwards at 25 km/h. Find the velocity of the rain relative to the driver of the car.

Maths / Physics - bobpursley, Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 12:16pm
Relative to driver?

Falling at 25km/h, horizontal at 82km/hr

Velocity= 25km/hr DOWN+82KM/hr TowardBack

so add these as vectors.

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