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Got the first part; the second part of the question asks what angle of inclination the bale will strike, given between -180° and 180°. Drawn out, this seems to resemble a right triangle with a 65 m height, 200.4188 m length (initial X velocity = 55 m/s, time of 3.6422 s), and the inverse tangent of that is 17.970° - yet neither that nor ~162° seem to work. Why not?
A plane, flying due east at 55 m/s, drops a bale of hay from an altitude of 65m.
Acceleration due to gravity: 9.81 m/s².
If the bale of hay weighs 173 N, what's the momentum of the bale the moment it strikes the ground? Answer in kg∙m/s.
Since momentum is just the product of mass and velocity, what I tried to do is consider y-axis movement only; that is,
[tex]V_0 = 0 \frac{m}{s}[/tex]
[tex]a = 9.8 \frac{m}{s^2}[/tex]
[tex]\Delta y = 65 m , \mbox so:[/tex]
[tex]v^2 = v_0^2 + 2a\Delta x[/tex]
Solving that, velocity comes out to 35.711 m/s. Since the bale's weight is 173 N, then 173 / 9.8 = 17.653 kg. Multiplying that weight by the above velocity would seem to me that it should produce the correct answer, but it does not; why?
Homework Statement
A plane, flying due east at 55 m/s, drops a bale of hay from an altitude of 65m.
Acceleration due to gravity: 9.81 m/s².
If the bale of hay weighs 173 N, what's the momentum of the bale the moment it strikes the ground? Answer in kg∙m/s.
The Attempt at a Solution
Since momentum is just the product of mass and velocity, what I tried to do is consider y-axis movement only; that is,
[tex]V_0 = 0 \frac{m}{s}[/tex]
[tex]a = 9.8 \frac{m}{s^2}[/tex]
[tex]\Delta y = 65 m , \mbox so:[/tex]
[tex]v^2 = v_0^2 + 2a\Delta x[/tex]
Solving that, velocity comes out to 35.711 m/s. Since the bale's weight is 173 N, then 173 / 9.8 = 17.653 kg. Multiplying that weight by the above velocity would seem to me that it should produce the correct answer, but it does not; why?
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