An airplane flying horizontally at a constant speed of 314 km/h over level ground releases a bundle of food supplies. Ignore the effect of the air on the bundle. (a) What is the bundle's initial vertical component of velocity? km/h (b) What is the bundle's initial horizontal component of velocity? km/h (c) What is its horizontal component of velocity just before hitting the ground?
An airplane flying horizontally at a constant speed of 314 km/h over level ground releases a bundle of food supplies. Ignore the effect of the air on the bundle. (a) What is the bundle's initial vertical component of velocity? km/h (b) What is the bundle's initial horizontal component of velocity? km/h (c) What is its horizontal component of velocity just before hitting the ground?
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![An airplane flying horizontally at a constant speed of 314 km/h over level ground releases a bundle of food supplies. Ignore the effect of the air on the bundle.
(a) What is the bundle's initial vertical component of velocity?
km/h
(b) What is the bundle's initial horizontal component of velocity?
km/h
(c) What is its horizontal component of velocity just before hitting the ground?
km/h(d) If the airplane's speed were, instead, 414 km/h, would the time of fall be larger, smaller, or the same?
cannot tell from data given
the same
O larger
smaller](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fa4f7ed48-b909-4531-a032-447abb048c58%2F838cec7f-9a25-4022-bb25-2a88d87f2ddd%2Fh9igfha_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:An airplane flying horizontally at a constant speed of 314 km/h over level ground releases a bundle of food supplies. Ignore the effect of the air on the bundle.
(a) What is the bundle's initial vertical component of velocity?
km/h
(b) What is the bundle's initial horizontal component of velocity?
km/h
(c) What is its horizontal component of velocity just before hitting the ground?
km/h(d) If the airplane's speed were, instead, 414 km/h, would the time of fall be larger, smaller, or the same?
cannot tell from data given
the same
O larger
smaller
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Initially the bundle has the same velocity as that of the airplane that is only horizontal component of the velocity.
Hence it doesn't have initial vertical component of velocity.
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