Question

A plane is flying horizontally with speed 251 m/s at a height 2180 m above the ground, a package is thrown downward from the plane with a vertical speed v1 = 80 m/s.
What is the magnitude of the total velocity of the package at the moment it is thrown as seen by an observer on the ground?
Answer in units of m/s

Answer 1

sqrt (251^2 + 80^2)