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Homework Statement
The movie 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' begins with a pilot dropping a bottle out of an airplane. It is recovered by a surprised native below, who thinks it is a message from the gods. If the plane from which the bottle was dropped was flying at a height of 500m and the bottle lands 400m horizontally from the initial dropping point, how fast was the plane flying when the bottle was released?
Homework Equations
I know this isn't an equation but I think it might be relevant to know the accelaration rate... I'm to use g=10m/s/s for this question.
The Attempt at a Solution
So I've drawn myself a picture on my notebook with a plane traveling and this guy dropping a bottle... and I've made different frames, showing that the plane is traveling little by little.
Well. To list the knowns and unknowns, I have this:
distance from ground to plane: 500m
distance between dropping point and landing point (horizontally): 400m
speed the plane was traveling at: UNKNOWN
We just started this section... and I'm struggling. I don't want to feel like I should never have taken IB high physics... at this rate, I SO will. Please help me understand this!