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A light plane attains an airspeed of 470 km/h. The pilot sets out for a destination 800 km due north but discovers that the plane must be headed 17.0° east of due north to fly there directly. The plane arrives in 2.00 h. What were the (a) magnitude (in km/h) and (b) direction of the wind...

You throw a ball toward a wall at speed 24.0 m/s and at angle θ0 = 43.0° above the horizontal (Fig. 4-35). The wall is distance d = 16.0 m from the release point of the ball. (a) How far above the release point does the ball hit the wall? What are the (b) horizontal and (c) vertical components...

At one instant a bicyclist is 27.0 m due east of a park's flagpole, going due south with a speed of 14.0 m/s. Then 31.0 s later, the cyclist is 27.0 m due north of the flagpole, going due east with a speed of 14.0 m/s. For the cyclist in this 31.0 s interval, what are the (a) magnitude and (b)...