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Motion in A Plane
Question
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In long jumping does it matter how high you jump? What factor determines the span of the jump?

Answer

It does not matter how high an athlete jumps in a long jump. The span of long jump depends upon the initial velocity and the angle at which an athlete jumps. The span of jump is maximum for an angle of 45°.

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Some More Questions From Motion in A Plane Chapter

What are the basic characteristics that a quantity must possess so that it may be a vector quantity?

Is a physical quantity, having a direction, necessarily a vector?

Name a quantity which is both scalar as well as vector.

Which of the followings is/are vector quantities: work, power, acceleration, mass, momentum?

Pick up the odd one from the following: force, linear momentum, mass, impulse.

Pick out the only vector quantities in the following list:
Temperature, pressure, impulse, time, power, total path length, energy, gravitational potential, coefficient of friction and charge.

Pick out the two scalar quantities in the following list:
force, angular momentum, work, current, linear momentum, electric field, average velocity, magnetic moment, reaction as per Newton’s third law, relative velocity.

What are polar vectors?

Give two examples of polar vectors.

What are axial vectors?