A man in a car at location Q on a straight highway is moving with speed $$\upsilon $$. He decides to reach a point P in a field at a distance d from the highway (point M) as shown in the figure. Speed of the car in the field is half to that on the highway. What should be the distance RM, so that the time taken to reach P is minimum ?

A plane polarized light is incident on a polariser with its pass axis aking angle $$\theta $$ with x-axis, as shown in the figure. At four different values of $$\theta ,\,\theta $$ = 8^o, 38^o, 188^o and 218^o, the observed intensities are same.
What is the angle between the direction of polarization and x-axis ?

A disc rotates about its axis of symmetry in a horizontal plane at a steady rate of $$3.5$$ revolutions per second. A coin placed at a distnce of 1.25 cm from the axis of rotation remains at rest on the disc. The coefficient of friction between the coin and the disc is : (g = 10 m/s²)

A thin uniform bar of length $$L$$ and mass $$8$$ m lies on a smooth horizontal table. Two point masses m and 2 m are moving in the same horizontal plane from opposite sides of the bar with speeds 2$$\upsilon $$ and $$\upsilon $$ respectively. The masses stick to the bar after collision at a distance $${L \over 3}$$ and $${L \over 6}$$ respectively from the center of the bar. If the br starts rotating about its center of mass as a result of collision, the angular speed of the bar will be :