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A truck is moving north at a speed of 70 km/h. The exhaust pipe above the truck cab
sends out a trail of smoke that makes an angle of
the wind is blowing directly toward the east, what is the wind speed at that location?
[Hint: The smoke reveals the direction of the truck with-respect-to the air.]
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The speed of wind at the location considering the wind is blowing toward east and if the truck moves north at a speed of
Answer to Problem 44SP
Solution:
Explanation of Solution
Given data:
The speed of truck is
The exhaust pipe sends smoke at an angle
The wind is blowing toward the east.
Formula used:
Consider two vectors
The magnitude of vector
Here,
The angle of vector
Here,
The scalar components of vector
Here,
Vector
The resultant vector of two vectors represented by adjacent sides of a parallelogram is expressed as
Here,
Explanation:
Understand that the smoke is emitted from the truck in a direction exactly opposite to the direction of motion of truck. According to the problem, the truck moves north, therefore the smoke is initially emitted in the south direction.
Draw a diagram for the problem considering north as +y direction, south as –y direction, east as +x direction, and west as –x direction:
Here,
Consider the expression for angle with the horizontal:
Here,
Substitute
Consider the expression for horizontal scalar component of the velocity vector of air through the exhaust pipe:
Here,
The angle is measured anticlockwise from the horizontal, therefore, consider the angle as negative.
Substitute
Consider the expression for vertical scalar component of the velocity vector of air through the exhaust pipe.
Here,
Substitute
Consider the Cartesian form of resultant velocity of air:
Here,
Substitute
Consider the velocity of smoke of truck, which is equal to magnitude of the velocity of truck, that is,
The velocity vector
The resultant velocity of the wind is in the east direction. Therefore, the vertical component of
According to the problem, the truck moves in north direction, therefore, it doesn’t have any horizontal velocity. Therefore, the velocity of wind is equal to the horizontal component of resultant smoke velocity. The horizontal component of vector
Substitute
Substitute
Conclusion:
The speed of wind at the location is
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