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A marble rolls down (from rest) from a cliff of height 5m, and then encounters a vertical drop of 1m.
Find the range of the marble on the horizontal planes...

For those of you who don't know already, marbles are solid spheres, and are quite small..

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  2. i think x=root(80/7)
    after falling there it will go upto infinity of friction is acting on horizontal plane

    bhaiya plz solve this ques also
    http://forum.100percentile.com/iitjee_aieee_forums/posts/list/Physics-Discussions-electrostatics-29619.htm

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  3. hi amit...i had once tried that question at 100p forum...though i was never able to get the correct answer:

    apply conservation of energy:

    gain in surface energy:
    sigma*{2*4pi(2R)^2}-sigma*{2*4pi(R)^2}

    for finding the loss in electrostatic potential energy, use the capacitance of a shell: 4(pi)eR, and that the energy is q^2/2C...C increases when R becomes 2R..so EPE decreases.

    Also, there is some work done against the atmospheric pressure, given by P*increase in volume.

    But combining all this did not give me the correct answer

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  4. you know...i don't really give out easy questions..so, my sixth sense tells me that root (80/7) can't be the answer...

    I made that extra effort in "its a sphere"...

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  5. you know..i don't really hand out easy problems...

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  6. i have used the fact that it is a sphere
    the balls KE at the edge=5/7mgh

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  7. you're correct till this point...but as this question is labeled "difficult", you cannot ignore the fact that the sphere infact rotates (by SOME angle), about the edge...

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  8. it will rotate by angle cos inv (10/17)

    its velocity at the edge will make the same agle with horizontal anticlockwise

    then a very huge calculation of solving the quadratic

    i get ans
    RANGE = 0.65 m (approx)

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  9. @ankush sachdeva , it will not rotate by cos inverse 10/17 bcoz it is no fallling from rest position initially .it is moving with some velocity .that's why the angle would change ...

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