Question

VECTOR HELP.

Why is it when there's a plane who's beairng is 335 degrees travels due east at 450 mph the angle is tilted down?

Answer 1

ok the question is that a plane in flying due east. there is a 65 mph wind with the bearing of 60 degrees. find the compass heading they should follow and determine the ground speed (if its speed with no wind is 450mph)

Answer 2

what does this have to do with 335 and 450?

Answer 3

oh i was making an example dont mind 335

Answer 4

look at the question but anyways it says the x-axis represents the flight path

Answer 5

Im asking isn;t the x-axis the ground or the line below it? or that has nothing to do with vectors.......

Answer 6

well because we are going due east, the angle is 0, and thus the x axis is the direction it is going

Answer 7

if we were going north we would be going on the "y axis"

Answer 8

OK here it is can you explain it again

Answer 9

ok so the arrow pointing down is the way we need to fly if we are going to fly against the wind
the other one is the wind
we want to go in the x axis direction(east)
so we want it so that if we add the two vectors shown in the picture you get the x axis direction

Answer 10

that is AD = AC + AB

Answer 11

Is the longer blue line the ground then?

Answer 12

x axis direction = wind vector + vector we should be going

Answer 13

no ground at all

Answer 14

oooh ok

Answer 15

its like you are looking down on the ground

Answer 16

like they're landing?

Answer 17

we are looking down from above the airplane in this picture.

Answer 18

or you could look at it like you are on the ground, and you look up, and this is what you see.

Answer 19

making sense? @doulikepiecauseidont ?

Answer 20

kind of, ok so the plane is travelling east and with the help of the wind its now travelling in this other directions?

Answer 21

direction?