Solutions to I E Irodov - Physical Fundamentals of Mechanics

Newton single handedly brought about a new era in our understanding of the physical world, through his famous equation F = ma and the law of gravity. These laws successfully predict the behavior of all phenomena from the microscopic world to the astronomical world! Ofcourse, Einstien changed things once again but that was only after about 4 centuries. Solving Irodov dramatically helped me understand the power, elegance, simplicity and beauty of Physics. Hopefully you will enjoy the journey too.
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2007

Irodov Problem 1.3

Mean velocity is total distance by total time. The v-t graph is shown in the figure beside. Suppose that time of constant acceleration was t. During the initial acceleration phase thus the car will travel and its final speed will be . This can also be calculated

using the v-t diagram as the area under the line AB (triangle ABE). The car will take the same time t to come to complete rest and during this deceleration phase it will travel the area of the triangle CFD. During the uniform motion phase the car travels at a speed and travels for the . This can be calculated in the v-t diagram as

remaining time of

. Thus , during the uniform motion phase it travels a distance of

. This can be calculated as the area of the rectangle EBCF. The total distance traveled is thus given by,

The average velocity during the entire time is thus given by,

The above equation is a quadratic equation which has two possible solutions,

Clearly we choose the -ive sign since t cannot exceed the total time. The uniform interval is thus given by,

Posted by Krishna Kant Chintalapudi at 9:23 AM 1 comments

Irodov Problem 1.2

Mean velocity is total distance by total time. Let the total distance traveled be d. The time taken to travel half the distance (d/2) at speed vo is d/(2vo). Now another d/2 distance remains to be traveled. Now let the time taken to travel this remaining distance be t. Then (t/2)v1 + (t/2)v2 = d/2. This means that t = d/(v1 + v2).

The total time traveled thus is, d/(2vo) + d/(v1 + v2). The total distance is d. Thus, the mean velocity is,

Posted by Krishna Kant Chintalapudi at 8:58 AM 0 comments

Irodov Problem 1.1

Let the flow of the river be a velocity f downstream. The total time elapsed here during the entire time of the problem is l/f and so the time elapsed since the boat turned its direction upstream is .

This problem is easy to solve if we solve relative to an observer on the raft. The river is stationary (speed is zero) relative to an observer on the raft since the raft moves with it. This means that for an observer on the raft, the effect of river's motion on the motorboat will be absent. Relative to an observer on the raft thus, the boat went downstream with the same speed as it returned upstream. Since relative to the raft, the speed of the motor boat did not change, the boat must have taken the same amount of time to travel upstream and downstream. This implies that, . In other words,

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