Instruments in airplane A indicate that with respect to the air the plane is headed 30? north

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Instruments in airplane A indicate that with respect to the air the plane is headed 30? north of east with an airspeed of 480 km/h. At the same time radar on ship B indicates that the relative velocity of the plane with respect to the ship is 416 km/h in the direction 33? north of east. Knowing that the ship is steaming due south at 20 km/h, determine(a) The velocity of the airplane,(b) The wind speed anddirection.image

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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