Question
A bird is at a point P whose coordinates are $(4 m,-1 m, 5 m)$. The bird observes two points $P _1$ and $P _2$ having coordinates $(-1 m, 2 m, 0 m)$ and $(1 m, 1 m, 4 m)$ respectively. At time $t =0$, it starts flying in a plane of three positions, with a constant speed of $5 ms^{-1}$ in a direction perpendicular to the straight line $P _1 P _2$ till it sees $P _1$ and $P _2$ collinear at time $t$. Calculate $t$.

Answer

The situation is shown in figure. The bird flies in a direction perpendicular to line $P_1 P_2$. Suppose it reaches the point $Q$ in time $t$ (after starting from point P ) where it sees $P _1$ and $P _2$ as collinear.
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$
\begin{aligned}
& \text { and }|\vec{B}|=\sqrt{2^2+1^2+4^2}=4.583 m \\
& \therefore \quad d=\frac{12.25}{4.583}=2.67 m
\end{aligned}
$
Time taken by bird to reach the point Q will be
$
t=\frac{d}{v}=\frac{2.67}{5}=0.5346 s
$

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