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Description: Rain-drops are falling vertically down at 3.0 m/s. You are walking towards north on a horizontal road at 2.0 m/s. What is the relative velocity of the rain-drops with respect to you? Please give the magnitude and direction both.

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Rain-drops are falling vertically down at 3.0 m/s. You are walking towards north on a horizontal road at 2.0 m/s. What is the relative velocity of the rain-drops with respect to you? Please give the magnitude and direction both.

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Velocity of rain = 3.0 m/s (vertically downward)

Velocity of man = 4.0 m/s ( towards north)

Find :

Relative velocity of rain with respect to man.

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