Recent content by lukesean

Hi Mark I guess your from Florida. Thanks for replying. I started the probelem by first applying the equation s=ut+1/2at2 equation vertically from the projected point. Next i found the time but from then onwards i got stuck with trying to process how to show that the bullet hits the aircraft...

An aircraft flies at a constant height H and constant velocity V. When the aircraft has flown directly over a gun on the ground a shot is fired from the gun which points at the aircraft at an angle of elevation Ѳ. If the initial velocity of the bullet is KVsecѲ [k >1], and Ѳ =tan inverse[...