$A$ bird is tossing (flying to and fro) between two cars moving towards each other on a straight road. One car has a speed of $54 \text{ kmh}^{-1}$ while the other has a speed of $36 \text{ kmh}^{-1}$. The bird starts moving from the first car towards the other and is moving with a speed of $36 \text{ kmh}^{-1}$ when the two cars are separated by $36 \text{ km}$. The total distance covered by the bird before the cars meet each other is: (in $\text{ m}$)

$A$ boat crosses a river from one bank $A$ to another bank $B$ which is opposite. The distance between them is $D$. The speed of water is $V_W$ and that of the boat relative to water is $V_B$. If $V_B = 2V_W$, the time taken by the boat to cross the river directly along $AB$ is $(\sin 30^\circ = 1/2, \cos 30^\circ = \sqrt{3}/2)$.

$A$ man projects a coin upwards from the gate of a uniformly moving train. The path of the coin for the man will be

On a long horizontally moving belt,a child runs to and fro with a speed $9 \; km \; h^{-1}$ (with respect to the belt) between his father and mother located $50 \; m$ apart on the moving belt. The belt moves with a speed of $4 \; km \; h^{-1}$. For an observer on a stationary platform outside,what is the:
$(a)$ speed of the child running in the direction of motion of the belt?
$(b)$ speed of the child running opposite to the direction of motion of the belt?
$(c)$ time taken by the child in $(a)$ and $(b)$?
Which of the answers alter if motion is viewed by one of the parents?

$A$ person running horizontally observes that rain is falling on his head vertically with a speed of $10\,m/s$. When he stops,he observes that the rain is falling at an angle of $30^o$ with the vertical. Find the speed with which the man was running.

Two trains are moving with equal speed in opposite directions along two parallel railway tracks. If the wind is blowing with speed $u$ along the track so that the relative velocities of the trains with respect to the wind are in the ratio of $1:2$,then the speed of each train must be