A helicopter goes straight up 500m from a landing pad. It then goes north 20m. Then it goes down 452m. a) What is the displacement of the helicopter? Express as components of a vector.
x-component
y-component

b) What is the displacement of the helicopter? Express as a vector (magnitude and direction).

Answer

a

  x-component            

y-component    

b

 Magnitude

direction is  

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

   The first  vertical distance is  

    The  first horizontal distance  is  

    The  second vertical distance is  

Generally the displacement is  

x-component            

y-component    

Generally the helicopters displacement is mathematically evaluated as  

The  direction is the angle the displacement of the helicopter makes with the horizontal which is mathematically evaluated as

=>      

=>      

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