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lmbiango
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2D Kinematics, airplanes crashing wtf??
An airplane is flying with a velocity of 240 m/s at an angle of 30.0° with the horizontal, as the drawing shows. When the altitude of the plane is 2.4 km, a flare is released from the plane. The flare hits the target on the ground. What is the angle theta?
There was a diagram with this, but it's pretty self explanatory.
Vxo = 240(cos(30)) = 207.8 m/s
Vyo = 240(sin(30)) = 120 m/s
Vf^2 - Vi^2 = 2a (change in X)
Vy^2 - 120^2 = 2(9.8)(2400)
Vy^2 = 247.87 m/s
(wrong!)
and theta:
the inverse tangent of (247.87/207.8)
=50.01 degrees
Also wrong.
I have no idea where I could have gone wrong. I thought I had this one!
An airplane is flying with a velocity of 240 m/s at an angle of 30.0° with the horizontal, as the drawing shows. When the altitude of the plane is 2.4 km, a flare is released from the plane. The flare hits the target on the ground. What is the angle theta?
There was a diagram with this, but it's pretty self explanatory.
Vxo = 240(cos(30)) = 207.8 m/s
Vyo = 240(sin(30)) = 120 m/s
Vf^2 - Vi^2 = 2a (change in X)
Vy^2 - 120^2 = 2(9.8)(2400)
Vy^2 = 247.87 m/s
(wrong!)
and theta:
the inverse tangent of (247.87/207.8)
=50.01 degrees
Also wrong.
I have no idea where I could have gone wrong. I thought I had this one!