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    How to Determine the Final Piece's Location in an Exploding Plane Problem?

    No I tried that answer and was told I was off by over 5 minutes (or ~7 km). For the full basis of the problem, check the following link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=58122108-8853-4fd0-bb63-7673799ee2ba --2sonian--
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    How to Determine the Final Piece's Location in an Exploding Plane Problem?

    So I'm still not clear on this or just being vastly stupid. If I sum the vectors to zero, then I get a vector for the missing piece that is of the same magnitude as the second piece and in a direction that is 60° south of due west. How does freefall time matter at that point? --2sonian--
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    How to Determine the Final Piece's Location in an Exploding Plane Problem?

    I'm running into trouble how to conceptualize and determine my reference frames to make the solving of this problem easy: It's a variation on the "exploding shell" problem, except that an intial velocity of 300 m/s is given to the particle. Here's the setup...
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