Question
you and your friend are riding on a helicopter that is traveling west at a speed of 10 meters per second. You throw a baseball with a velocity of 2 meters per second north, straight across the inside of the helicopter to your friend on the other side. What is the velocity of the baseball relative to the ground?
Answers
Henry
V^2 = X^2 + Y^2 = 2^2 + 10^2 = 104
V = 10.20 m/s.
V = 10.20 m/s.