a bird is flying through the air with an air speed 12.6m/s heading 27.7 west of north. it is a windy day with wind velocity blowing at 8.95m/s heading 12.5 south of west. what is the velocity of the bird as seen by a person on the ground

Answer 1

Take both vectors and do sin and cos to find the components. Then add the components separately. Then do a pythagorean and a tan-1 to find the total.