Question

A moving walkway has a speed of 0.4 m/s to the east. A Stationary observer sees a man walking on the walkway with a velocity of 0.3 m/s to the east. What is the man's velocity relative to the moving walkway?

Answer 1

Speed of man is 0.1 m/s towards west

Step-by-step explanation:

Speed of moving walkway given as

v = 0.4 m/s towards East

Speed of man walking on the walkway with velocity 0.3 m/s to the East with respect to stationary observer.

so here it is the net speed of the man on the walkway

so we can say

`v_(man) = v_(net) - v_(walkway)`

`v_(man) = 0.3 m/s - 0.4 m/s`

`v_(man) = - 0.1 m/s`

so man is moving with speed 0.1 m/s towards west