Trigonometry (10th Edition)

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Chapter 7 - Applications of Trigonometry and Vectors - Section 7.5 Applications of Vectors - 7.5 Exercises - Page 337: 29

Answer

The ground speed is 232 km/h The resulting bearing of the plane is $166.5^{\circ}$

Work Step by Step

Let $a = 240~km/h$ Let $b = 30~km/h$ Let angle $\theta$ be the angle between these two vectors. Then $\theta = 174^{\circ}-65^{\circ} = 109^{\circ}$ Let $c$ be the resultant of these two vectors. Note that the magnitude of $c$ is the ground speed. We can use the parallelogram rule to find $c$: $c = \sqrt{a^2+b^2+2ab~cos~\theta}$ $c = \sqrt{(240~km/h)^2+(30~km/h)^2+(2)(240~km/h)(30~km/h)~cos~109^{\circ}}$ $c = \sqrt{53811.82~(km/h)^2}$ $c = 232~km/h$ The ground speed is 232 km/h We can use the law of sines to find the angle B between the vector c and the vector a: $\frac{c}{sin~C} = \frac{b}{sin~B}$ $sin~B = \frac{b~sin~C}{c}$ $B = arcsin(\frac{b~sin~C}{c})$ $B = arcsin(\frac{(30.0)~sin~71^{\circ}}{232})$ $B = arcsin(0.122265)$ $B = 7.5^{\circ}$ The resulting bearing of the plane is $174^{\circ}-7.5^{\circ} = 166.5^{\circ}$
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