Two stones are thrown up simultaneously from the edge of a cliff 200 m high with initial speed of 15 m s -1 and 30 m s -1 respectively. The time variation of the relative position of the second stone with respect to the first as shown in the figue. The equation of the linear part is

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For first stone,

When this hits the ground,
, on solving, we get

Since the stone was projected at
. Hence, negative time has no meaning in this case.
For the second stone,

When this stone hits the ground,
, on solving, wet

is meaningless. Therefore,
Subtracting
from
we get

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