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Homework Statement
A cup of coffee is dropped aboard an airplane accelerating along a smooth runway. If it falls a vertical distance of 1.0 meter, find its horizontal displacement when it hits the floor. Assume a constant horizontal acceleration of 1.5m/s^2 for the airplane.
Homework Equations
F=ma
The Attempt at a Solution
This chapter is about noninertial reference systems, if that means anything for this problem.
I looked at the problem and said there was a force due to gravity and a force from the horizontal acceleration.
f=ma=mg+ma1
v(dv/dx)=g+a1
I don't think I started this correctly, because we don't have a velocity. Am I going in the right direction here?