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
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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