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A railway compartment is 16 m long, 2.4 m wide and 3.2 m high. It is moving with a velocity v. A particle moving horizontally with a speed u, perpendicular to the direction of v, enters through a hole at an upper corner A and strikes the diagonally opposite corner B. Assume g = 10 m/s 2 .

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(a, b, d)





= – v,
= u
u (p/c) = 0

= – 
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