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Consider a seesaw of length l=8m and height h=2m as shown. A small boy sits at one end of the seesaw. Another body pushes down the other end of the seesaw. At the instant when the other end hits the ground, the angular velocity of the seesaw is g and the small boy is airborne. The maximum height reached by the small boy is 5a3 meters. The value of a is__

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answer is 6.

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u=ωr=ωl2=4g

cos θ=234=32

α=π2-θ

maximum height from the level of B:

H=u2sin2α2g=42g cos2θ2g=6 m

maximum height from level of ground (AC):

Hmax=2h+H=10 m

5a3=10 a=6

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Consider a seesaw of length l=8m and height h=2m as shown. A small boy sits at one end of the seesaw. Another body pushes down the other end of the seesaw. At the instant when the other end hits the ground, the angular velocity of the seesaw is g and the small boy is airborne. The maximum height reached by the small boy is 5a3 meters. The value of a is__