Homework Help: Advanced Maths (Vectors) AQA Level, please help?

Posted by jat on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 2:18pm.

An aircraft have a speed in still air of 400 km/h. A wind is blowing from the south at 80 km/h.
The pilot wishes the aircraft to travel due east. Find the direction in which aircraft should be steered and the speed at which it will travel.

Advanced Maths (Vectors) AQA Level, please help? - bobpursley, Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 2:22pm
for every hour, the aircraft goes 80km. To go south to compensate, the 400SinTheta=80 on speed, or theta=.2 or Theta will be arc sin .2 S of East.

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