A pilot in an airplane with an airspeed of 800 km/h wishes to fly to a city 2400 km due south. A wind blows from 030 at a speed of 100 km/h. Vector diagram a. In what heading should the pilot steer? b. What will be the groundspeed of the airplane? c. How long will the trip take?
A pilot in an airplane with an airspeed of 800 km/h wishes to fly to a city 2400 km due south. A wind blows from 030 at a speed of 100 km/h. Vector diagram a. In what heading should the pilot steer? b. What will be the groundspeed of the airplane? c. How long will the trip take?
A pilot in an airplane with an airspeed of 800 km/h wishes to fly to a city 2400 km due south. A wind blows from 030 at a speed of 100 km/h. Vector diagram a. In what heading should the pilot steer? b. What will be the groundspeed of the airplane? c. How long will the trip take?
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The exercise says the wind is travelling from [030] at a speed of 100 km/h.
Transcribed Image Text:A pilot in an airplane with an airspeed of 800 km/h wishes to fly to a city 2400 km due south.
A wind blows from 030 at a speed of 100 km/h.
Vector diagram
a. In what heading should the pilot steer?
b. What will be the groundspeed of the
airplane?
c. How long will the trip take?
Quantities that have magnitude and direction but not position. Some examples of vectors are velocity, displacement, acceleration, and force. They are sometimes called Euclidean or spatial vectors.
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