SOLUTION: A light air craft is 60 km north east from OR Tambo International Airport and it flies north for six hours at a velocity of 96 km/h, Determine its position(displacement) with refer

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Question 1085979: A light air craft is 60 km north east from OR Tambo International Airport and it flies north for six hours at a velocity of 96 km/h, Determine its position(displacement) with reference to OR Tambo I. Magnitude and direction?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So for the 60km NE, it traveled 60(sqrt(2)/2) north and east.
For 6 hours, it traveled north.
So all together it traveled,
East :
North:
The magnitude would be the square root of the sum of the squares of E and N,

and the angle,

where 0 degrees is due East.
Work those two out for the answer.

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