A river is flowing at a rate of 7.62 m/s due South. You are canoeing across the river at a speed of 10.0 m/s, but want to make sure that your canoe travels due East, relative to the ground. What heading do you need to take, relative to the river? Express your answer as an angle, degrees North of East.

A river is flowing at a rate of 7.62 m/s due South. You are canoeing across the river at a speed of 10.0 m/s, but want to make sure that your canoe travels due East, relative to the ground. What heading do you need to take, relative to the river? Express your answer as an angle, degrees North of East.

College Physics

10th Edition

ISBN:9781285737027

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter3: Vectors And Two-Dimensional Motion

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 4WUE: A hiker walks from (x1, y1) = (4.00 km. 3.00 km) to (x2, y2) = (3.00 km, 6.00 km), (a) What distance...

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

A student drives 10 km to the north and then 20 km 30 degrees S of E. By using the component method, what are the magnitude and direction of his displacement from the starting point?
Starting at the origin, a person walks 350 meters in a direction 30.0° South of West, then 570 meters in a direction 35.0° West of North. If the person now wishes to walk in a straight line back to the origin, what must be the magnitude and direction of the displacement?
A student drives 10 km to the north and then 20 km 30 degrees South of the east. By using the component method, what are the magnitude and direction of his displacement from the starting point?
Jonah is walking along a trail. The trail heads east for 1350 meters, before turning north and continuing for 990 meters. At the end of the trail, what is Jonah's displacement vector? Options: 1670 m, 36.3∘36.3∘ north of east 1670 m, 36.3∘ east of north 2340 m, 31.0∘ east of north 2340 m, 31.0∘ north of east
Suppose Alex is navigating using a compass. She starts walking at an angle 60° north of east and walks a total of 100 m. How far north is she from her starting point? How far east?
A plane flies 488 km east from city A to city B in 41.0 min and then 883 km south from city B to city C in 1.20 h. For the total trip, what are the (a) magnitude and (b) direction of the plane's displacement, the (c) magnitude and (d) direction of its average velocity, and (e) its average speed? Give your angles as positive or negative values of magnitude less than 180 degrees, measured from the +x direction (east).
Calculate the magnitude and direction of the resultant of the two vectors a) 50 km E and b) 70 km 60* NE.2) An airplane travels at 4.5 x 10^2 km due east and then travels an unknown distance due north. Finally, it returns to its starting point by travelling a distance of 525 km. How far did the airplane travelled due north?
Can you help me with this problem? A bald eagle flies 5.75 m/s north relative to the air. There is a wind that is blowing east to west at 3.25 m/s. What is the magnitude and direction angle relative to the ground of the bald eagle velocity? Assume the y axis is north/south and the x axis east and west
A flock of ducks is trying to migrate south for the winter, but they keep being blown off course by a wind blowing from the west at 12 m/s. A wise elder duck finally realizes that the solution is to fly at an angle to the wind. If the ducks can fly at 16 m/s relative to the air, in what direction should they head in order to move directly south?
what is the resultant magnitude and directions? Given the vectors A= 6i + 9j, B = -9i + 9j, and C= 15i - 10j
In the Mississippi river banks in Louisiana, a tug boat leaves a harbor and sails 5.0 km in the direction 45 degrees south of east, where the captain stops to pick up a small load of crabs. A short time later, the boat sails 1.0 km in the direction west. What is the magnitude and direction of the resultant displacement from the harbor?
Jojo is riding a boat to travel across a river whose current has velocity of 1.20 m/s westward. If the speed of the boat is 1.85 m/s, at what angle should the boat head so that it travels northward directly across the river?