The angel of banking ' $ heta$ ' for a meter gauge railway line is $ heta= an ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{20} ight)$. What is the elevation of the outer rail above the inner rail?

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The angel of banking ' $	heta$ ' for a meter gauge railway line is $	heta=	an ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{20}ight)$. What is the elevation of the outer rail above the inner rail?

Aicharya · Accepted Answer

$\begin{aligned} & 	an 	heta=\frac{1}{20}=\frac{\mathrm{h}}{1} \ & 	herefore \mathrm{h}=\frac{1}{20} \mathrm{~m}=0.05=5 \mathrm{~cm}\end{aligned}$

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