insect quest

a good question for jee aspirants new to this forum......

suppose an insect (without wings) has to crawl from vertex A to vertex B of the cube of side a shown in the figure
then find the minimum distance that the insect has to travel to reach from
vertex A to vertex B........

p.s. injun joe stay away

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Arshad ~Died~ ·

injun read the p.s.

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Lokesh Verma ·

The question I gave just not is one that even I had not seen before :D :D

But i think there is a good solution too ;)

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injun joe ·

Sir's question

Shortest distance is 4R+L

R- Radius
L- Length of the cylinder

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Lokesh Verma ·

2R+L could have been an answer..? ??

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Lokesh Verma ·

but I think there is a better answer.. :)

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injun joe ·

2R+L kaise??

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Lokesh Verma ·

first move towards the top.. Length L

then cross the diameter.. 2R

hence the answer :)

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injun joe ·

ughhh!
Yet another slip!!!
2nd of the day
Sorry sir.....

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Lokesh Verma ·

but this is not the final answer.. is it?

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Lokesh Verma ·

"Removed my answer"

funnily this question also i discussed in the class IX that i am taking :D

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Philip Calvert ·

Unless I am sleeping.. this one is a sitting sitter

\sqrt{(\pi R)^{2}+L^{2}}

incomplete !

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$ourav @@@ -- WILL Never give ·

i did arshad's ques in class 9....but i got trapped in it at dat time

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$ourav @@@ -- WILL Never give ·

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$ourav @@@ -- WILL Never give ·

in my above diagram....d shortest distance will be by moving from A to B ,den to C....where B and Cmake 90° at the centre of the bottom circle...so the minimum distance cumes out as

[ (Ï€R/2)2 + L2 ] + R√2

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$ourav @@@ -- WILL Never give ·

isnt it nishant sir???

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qwerty ·

for such questions .....convert d 3D fig into a 2D fig ....then its a pythagoras type question [ thats how i solved the cube wala]
btw is the answer of the cube one = x(√5)???
[ shortest length = √(2x)2 + x2 ]

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Lokesh Verma ·

There is much moer to this question...

i mean the cyllinder one...

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$ourav @@@ -- WILL Never give ·

sir,i did it by pythagoras theorem in a 2-d figure....sir.,plz give d solution....

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Lokesh Verma ·

where did you get r√2 ??

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UTTARA ·

@Nishant Sir : Can this be a solution?

First travel R to reach the centre of top circular edge and then travel √ R2 + l2 to reach the required point on the opposite side of the bottom circular edge

Shortest since R + l > √R2 + L2

Therefore total dist = R + √R2 + L2

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Lokesh Verma ·

There is a small mistake...

will it be r or 2r?

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