Airplane projectile

[Dorian Gray]

Greetings Fellow Mathematicians,


I am having tremendous difficulties with the following problem. I have never seen a problem like this before, so I am not sure how to address it. I know that I will be splitting up the vectors into x and y, and that I will be using the famous four equations in physics, but that is about all that I can do.


Please. Any suggestions, advice, or guidance on this problem will be greatly valued.

Thank you!

 

[stapel]

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In the above formulae, what does each variable represent? Thank you! :wink:

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Greetings Fellow Mathematicians,


I am having tremendous difficulties with the following problem. I have never seen a problem like this before, so I am not sure how to address it. I know that I will be splitting up the vectors into x and y, and that I will be using the famous four equations in physics, but that is about all that I can do.


Please. Any suggestions, advice, or guidance on this problem will be greatly valued.

Thank you!View attachment 2219View attachment 2220

First thing you should do is to draw sketch. Then start writing your initial and final conditions

Assume that the speed of the plane at the release point = v_o
The initial speed of the projectile - horizontal component = v_ox = v_o* cos(37°)

The initial speed of the projectile - vertical -component = v_oy = v_o* sin(37°)

vertical distance traveled = 730 m

time of flight = 5 s

The projectile has 0 acceleration in x-direction and

The projectile has 9.8 m/s² acceleration in y-direction .

Now continue.....

 

[Dorian Gray]

First thing you should do is to draw sketch. Then start writing your initial and final conditions

Assume that the speed of the plane at the release point = v_o
The initial speed of the projectile - horizontal component = v_ox = v_o* cos(37°)

The initial speed of the projectile - vertical -component = v_oy = v_o* sin(37°)

vertical distance traveled = 730 m

time of flight = 5 s

The projectile has 0 acceleration in x-direction and

The projectile has 9.8 m/s² acceleration in y-direction .

Now continue.....

Greetings Subhotosh Khan,

One again, thank you very much for sharing you math expertise and helping me get started. I will post a picture later today or tomorrow of my work (I'm using a school computer right now. I've been having computer issues and am having it looked at today).

By the way, when you look at physics problems like these, do you have a standard approach that you always take? Or do you evaluate it situation by situation and then decide?

 

[Dorian Gray]

re: stapel

Greetings Stapel

a=acceleration
t=time
v=final velocity
vo=initial velocity
x=displacement