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Physics: Post your doubts here!

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explain a bit more.....

In this universe, work is done against a force.

When you raise a stone through height H, you are applying force MG on it.. and work is being done against the force of gravity. Now that work appears in the form of STORED gravitational potential energy!

Same way, work is done in a spring. You do work in compressing the spring, you do work against the stiffness of the spring, and it is stored in the form of elastic potential energy.

There is Electric potential energy too. When a charge moves against a field. If you push a proton towards a positive plate, you are doing work against electrostatic repulsion so it will be stored as Electric potential energy. Work done to push it = Electric potential energy stored in it.

Now figure out the question..
 
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Yeah thanks for that,though i figured it myself after reading the book.
Reading can do wonders :p
I actually did it by taking relative velocities,1 ms-1 and 0 and then using previous knowledge that if an object moves towards another one with same mass,their speed is halved and mass doubled,so thats how i did it but this seems more simple so thanks!
 
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Yeah thanks for that,though i figured it myself after reading the book.
Reading can do wonders :p
I actually did it by taking relative velocities,1 ms-1 and 0 and then using previous knowledge that if an object moves towards another one with same mass,their speed is halved and mass doubled,so thats how i did it but this seems more simple so thanks!
so u done all of em?
 
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The reaction force is always perpendicular to the surface. In this case, there are two forces acting:
1 - The horizontal force in the right direction causing the car to move forward
2 - The upward reaction force

Since both of the forces are acting simultaneously, we will take their resultant, which is the answer shown in option B.
 
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