A meteor streaking through the night sky is located with radar. At point A its coordinates are (5.20km,1.20km), and 1.16s later its has moved to point B with coordinates (6.08km, 0.900km ).
a) find the x comonent of it average velocity between A and B. .759km/s
b) y= .259 km/s
c) magintude= .801
****the only problem im having trouble on is this....
Find the direction of its average velocity between these two points.
=? counterwise from axis
i tried doing tan-1(.259/.759)= 18.84 and its wrong
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I agree with your angle, assuming your velocity components are correct. However i don't see why two dimensions are being used to describe the position. Meteors move in three dimensions.
so what would that last problem be ?
how to solve it?
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