If Honolulu airport is 3800 miles to the west of your school and 1500 miles to the south...
a) Find the displacement vector between your school and Honolulu airport.
b) At a cruising speed of 585 mph, how long does it take to get to Honolulu?

Question

If Honolulu airport is 3800 miles to the west of your school and 1500 miles to the south...
a) Find the displacement vector between your school and Honolulu airport.
b) At a cruising speed of 585 mph, how long does it take to get to Honolulu?

anonymous · Answer

Can you draw it..??

anonymous · Answer

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Displacement vector is always the shortest distance between two points
Applying pythagoras theorem, you get the value of hypotenuse as 4085.33 mi.

For 585mi of travel you take 1hr
how long are you going to take to travel 4085.33mi?
solution : 4085.33/585 = 7hrs