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Question

A cricket fielder can throw the cricket ball with a speed ν0. If he throws the ball while running with speed μ at an angle θ to the horizontal, what is the effective angle to the horizontal at which the ball is projected in air as seen by a spectator?  

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Solution

Consider the adjacent diagram

Initial velocity in x-direction, ux=u+v0cosθ

Initial velocity in y-direction,  uy=v0sinθ

where, angle of projection is θ

Now, we can write

tanθ=uyux=v0sinθu+v0cosθ

  θ=tan-1v0sinθu+v0cosθ

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