AP Physics Chapter 2 Study Guide Relative Motion
Relative velocity of a passenger on a train with respect to a person on the ground.
Sample Problem
Suppose the passenger on the train
is climbing a vertical ladder with a speed of
Sample Problem You are riding in a boat going
Sample Problem: In the figure a bat detects an insect
(lunch) while the two are flying. The bat has velocity
|
and
the train is slowly coasting forward at 
.
Find the speed and direction of the passenger relative to the ground.
at
an angle of 25¾ upstream on a river flowing at 
.
What is your velocity relative to the ground?
relative
to the ground, and the insect has velocity 
relative
to the ground. What is the velocity 
of
the insect relative to the bat, in unit-vector notation and as a magnitude
and an angle?