Answer:
The true course: north of east
The ground speed of the plane: 96.68 m/s
Explanation:
Given:
- = velocity of wind =
- = velocity of plane in still air =
Assume:
- = resultant velocity of the plane
- = direction of the plane with the east
Since the resultant is the vector addition of all the vectors. So, the resultant velocity of the plane will be the vector sum of the wind velocity and the plane velocity in still air.
Let us find the direction of this resultant velocity with respect to east direction:
This means the the true course of the plane is in the direction of north of east.
The ground speed will be the magnitude of the resultant velocity of the plane.
Hence, the ground speed of the plane is 96.68 km/h.
a) PE=mgh=0.2*9.8*1.2=2.352 J
b) KE=PE=2.352 J
c) m/s
Ok, this is a 2d kinematics problem, the falls 14 m part is confusing, I think it means in the x direction, but you don't need it anyway.
If we know it goes 4m into the air, we know d = 4m (height of wall), we also know the acceleration a=-9.8m/s^2 (because gravity) and that the vertical velocity when it just clears the wall will be 0 m/s, which we'll call our final velocity (Vf). Using Vf^2 = Vi^2 +2a*d, we can solve this for Vi and drop Vf because it's zero to get: Vi = sqrt(-2ad), plug in numbers (don't forget a is negative) and you get 8.85 m/s in the vertical direction. The x-direction velocity requires that we solve the y-direction for time, using Vf= Vi + at, we solve for t, getting t= -Vi/a, plug in numbers t= -8.85/-9.8 = 0.9 s. Now we can use the simple v = d/t (because x-direction has no acceleration (a=0)), and plug in the distance to the wall and the time it takes to get there v = (4/.9) = 4.444 m/s, this is the velocity in the x direction, we use Pythagoras' theorem to find the total velocity, Vtotal = sqrt(Vx^2 + Vy^2), so Vtotal = sqrt(8.85^2+4.444^2) = 9.9m/s. Yay physics!