Question

An airplane is flying due west at a velocity of 100 m/s. The wind is blowing out of the south at 5 m/s. What is the magnitude of the airplane’s resultant velocity?

Answer 1

@johnweldon1993 can you help me?

Answer 2

Looks like a right triangle with the resultant being the hypotenuse right?

So it looks like we can just use the Pythagorean Theorem here...

\[\large a^2 + b^2 = c^2\]

Answer 3

Thank you!

Answer 4

Anytime :)