Homework Help: physics

Posted by KDRAG on Monday, September 27, 2010 at 2:59am.

A person walks 37.0◦ north of east for 5.00
km. Another person walks due north and due
east to arrive at the same location.
How large is the east component of this
second path?

physics - Lilly, Monday, September 27, 2010 at 5:06am
use cosine to find the east component. you use the equation x=Vcos37.
5.00km * cos37 will give you the answer.

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