Homework Help: physics

Posted by jane on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 4:11pm.

A pilot wants to fly west (ie., the resultant is west). If the plane has an airspeed of 9.5 m/s, and there is a 25m/s wind blowing north, in what direction must she head the plane?

physics - bobpursley, Friday, December 3, 2010 at 5:39pm
Consider 100seconds flying. The plane goes 950m. So looking at the vector diagram, sinTheta=2500/950 where theta is the angle S of W. This gives a West resultant.

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