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1919 Paper 1 Q813
D: 1500.0 B: 1500.0

Define work and power, and shew that, when a force \(F\) is moving its point of application with velocity \(v\), the power is measured by \(Fv\). An engine of 300 horse-power pulls a train of 200 tons mass up an incline of 1 in 120, the resistance of wind and rails being 10 lb. weight per ton. Find the maximum velocity acquired, correct to one place of decimals in miles per hour.

1919 Paper 1 Q814
D: 1500.0 B: 1500.0

Prove that the path of a particle projected from a given point with a given velocity is a parabola, and that the velocity at any point is equal to the velocity acquired by a particle falling freely from the directrix to that point. A particle is projected from a point at a height \(h\) above a horizontal plane with velocity \(\sqrt{gh}\); shew that the farthest point in the plane which the particle can reach is at a distance \(2h\) from the point of projection.