Ten small planes are flying at a speed of 150 km/h in total darkness in an air space that is 20 × 20 × 1.5 km3 in volume. You are in one of the planes, flying at random within this space with no way of knowing where the other planes are. On the average about how long a time will elapse between near collision with your plane. Assume for this rough computation that a safety region around the plane can be approximated by a sphere of radius 10m.

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    Payal Gupta | Contributor-Level 10

    4 months ago

    This is a long answer type question as classified in NCERT Exemplar

    Time require to avoid the collision T= l/v where l = mean free path =1/ 2 π d 2 n

    Where n = N/V

    n=number of aeroplanes/volume

    = 10 20 × 20 × 1.5 = 0.0167 k m -3

    T= 1 V 2 π d 2 N × 1 v

    T= 1 2 × 3.14 × 20 2 × 0.0167 × 10 - 6 × 150 = 10 6 1776.25 × 2.505

    = 10 6 4449.5 = 224.74 h 225 h

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