An airplane flies 200 km due west from city A to city B and then 340 km in the direction of 35.0° north of west from city B to city C.

Question

(a) In straight-line distance, how far is city C from city A?

(b) Relative to city A, in what direction is city C?
° north of west

Answer 1

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physics - bobpursley, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6:45pm

Break up the vectors into N, W components, and add, then use the results to reform the vector.

Answer 2

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