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A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away with a speed of `5 km h^-1` . Finding the market closed, he instantly turns and walks back home with a speed of `7.5 km h^-1`. What is the :- magnitude of average velocity, and

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  2. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away w...

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  3. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away w...

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  4. In Exercises 3.13 and 3.14, we have carefully distinguished between av...

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  5. Look at the graphs (Fig. 3.20) carefully and state, with reasons, whi...

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  6. Figure 3.21 shows the x-t plot of one-dimensional 4 motion of a partic...

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  7. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 km h^-1 fires a bu...

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  8. Suggest a suitable physical situation for each of the following graphs...

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  11. Figure 3.23 gives the x-t plot of a particle executing one-dimensional...

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  12. Figure 3.24 gives the x-t plot of a particle in one-dimensional motion...

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