Question
In its approach to an airport runway, an airplane of mass 1.24 x 10^5 kg has a velocity of 75.5 m/s [11.1 degrees below the horizontal]. Determine the horizontal and vertical components of its momentum.
Answers
bobpursley
horizontal: 75.5*cos11.1
downward: 75.5sin11.1
Those are the velocity components, thence the momentum components is that velocity component x mass
downward: 75.5sin11.1
Those are the velocity components, thence the momentum components is that velocity component x mass