Source: Extra Practice
Rain is falling vertically downwards with a speed of . A girl walks on a straight road with a velocity of . The magnitude of the velocity of the rain relative to the girl is:
Options
Option A is correct
Option B
Option C
Option D
Explanation
Let the vertical downward direction be along and the horizontal direction of the girl's movement be along . Thus, the velocity of the rain is and the velocity of the girl is . The velocity of the rain relative to the girl is . The magnitude of this relative velocity is . Option 2 () and option 3 () are algebraic additions/subtractions which do not apply to perpendicular vector quantities.