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Flying ButterFly---URGENT Homework Statement Monarch butterflies can sustain air speeds of 4.4 m/s while migrating. A certain monarch wants to fly to a location due west 4.7 km away. A steady 2.4 m/s breeze is blowing from the east to the west. How long will it take the monarch to make the...

well these are Compass heading in degrees: N=0, E=90, S=180, and W=270 - i think N can also be counted as 360

Running Horses-----SOHCAHTOA Homework Statement A herd of wild horses races across the flat, open plains of the Great Basin in central Nevada. If the horses are running at 12.2 m/s at a compass heading of 340 degrees, what is the northward component of their velocity? And, what is the...

URGENT--Weight on an Incline--please help A 51.5 lb object is sitting on an inclined plane that makes a 33 degree angle with the horizontal. What is the component of weight that tends to make the object slide down the incline? And, what is the component of weight that presses against the...

Riding the Train --Vecotrs & components A passenger train is cruising directly to the north at 16.0 mi/hr. what are the speed and (numerical) direction of a passenger with respect to the ground on this train, if he now walks east-ward at 5.4 mi/hr? ---Compass heading in degrees: N=0, E=90...

Homework Statement Question: To find the speed of a ball bearing launched from a wrist rocket (sling-shot) you take aim at a 55 gallon steel drum exactly 78 meters from you. You hear the "clunk" of impact 0.7 seconds after you "let fly." If the speed of sound on that particular day is 330...

Question: A freight train has a speed of 29.8 m/s at a given instant and 9.2 seconds later its speed is 26.2 m/s. train's acceleration is -3.91×10-1 m/s^2 What additional time would be necessary to bring the train to a complete stop, if it continues to slow at the rate given? What...

Question: To find the speed of a ball bearing launched from a wrist rocket (sling-shot) you take aim at a 55 gallon steel drum exactly 78 meters from you. You hear the "clunk" of impact 0.7 seconds after you "let fly." If the speed of sound on that particular day is 330 m/s, how fast must the...

need help ASAP- Average Speed--Interval Problem Average Speed--Interval Problem Question: A caiman swims 160 meters at a speed of 10 m/s. It then enters a stream and slows to 4 m/s for 310 meters. What is the average speed of this cousin of the crocodile? Equation given: Average speed is...

Homework Statement A freight train has a speed of 28.7 m/s at a given instant and 10.8 seconds later its speed is 23.7 m/s. What is the train's acceleration? What additional time would be necessary to bring the train to a complete stop, if it continues to slow at the rate in the previous...