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Assume that you are sitting in a car. You see a person in the rear view mirror of radius of curvature 2m running towards you at t = 0. If person is running with velocity 5m/s, and it is at 9m distance from mirror at this instant. The average velocity of the image of man in first second is found to be 10x cm/s. Find the value of x.

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Solution

From lens formula we know that
v=fuuf
Initial object distance u=9m
Focal length of the mirror f=R2=22=1m
Thus we get initial image distance v1=1×(9)91=910m

After 1sec, new object distance u=(95)=4m
Thus new image distance v2=1×(4)41=45m
We get change in image distance Δv=91045=110m
Average velocity <v>=ΔvΔt=110m/s=10cm/s
which implies value of x is 1.

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