A boy running on a horizontal road at 
finds the rain falling vertically. He increases his speed to 
and finds that the drops makes 
with the vertical. The speed of rain with respect to the road is.
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This shows that the horizontal component of rain 
as the relative velocity of the rain has only a vertical component with respect the man.
Velocity of Rain 
from vertical.
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