Recent content by ekpm

My textbook introduces this angle concept really early on and I still don't understand it. It just shows that a normal to a line and some other random angle shown is the same. I don't see any transversal angles or anything. Where did they get the secondary line to form theta for the normal line?

Thanks for confirming. I think two moving objects relative to each other threw me off. I just realized that if the ball is moving -6 m/s to me, it would be stationary because if I were running +6 m/s north.

If the ball were going directly south relative to Mia with a magnitude of 5 m/s, would the vector for the V(B/M) be directly North? So the ball will kicked in front of her into the same direction she is running? Does the starting position of Alice even matter? I read the subsection on relative...

For some reason I'm having trouble understanding relative velocity problems. I know how to solve this, but I keep guessing at random methods until my answer matches the solution in the textbook. I solved it correctly by breaking the velocity of the ball into x- and y- components, then solved...