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To a stationary man, rain appears to be falling at his back at an angle `30^@` with the vertical. As he starts moving forward with a speed of `0.5 m s^-1`, he finds that the rain is falling vertically.
The speed of rain with respect to the stationary man is.

A

`0.5 ms^(-1)`

B

`1 ms ^(-1)`

C

`sqrt(3)/2 ms ^(-1)`

D

`1/sqrt3 ms ^(-1)`

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