Question
A car travels due east with a speed of . Rain is falling vertically with respect to Earth. The traces of the rain on the side windows of the car make an angle of with the vertical. Find the velocity of the rain with respect to (a) the car
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1 of 3The equation that we use when we have two objects moving in relative velocity and being observed from the ground is
where is the first object, is the second object and is the Earth. In our case, this equation can be rewritten as
where is the velocity of the rain relative to the car, the velocity of the rain as observed from the ground, and is the velocity of the car relative to the ground.
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