You are in the back of a pickup truck on a warm summer day and you have just finished eating an apple. The core is in your hand and you notice the truck is just passing an open dumpster 7.0 m due west of you. The truck is going 30.0 km/h due north - cont?
and you can throw that core at 60.0 km/h. In what direction should you throw it to put it in the dumpster, and how long will it take it to reach its destination?
and you can throw that core at 60.0 km/h. In what direction should you throw it to put it in the dumpster, and how long will it take it to reach its destination?
1 Answer
My vantage point in the truck:
4)
The direction is given in the x-y plane is give by the angle between
the vector given by
Remark: You can also use conservation of momentum to get the direction. I have added the z direction because the core will influenced by gravity, thus will undergo a parabolic motion as it travels to dumpster...
Observer outside the truck vantage point
Explanation:
This is a great question that illustrate relative displacement and velocity, or in general acceleration. While your question does not touch on it the general consideration of this is to determine the ball
trajectory in the presence
Observer - Inside the truck, Me : The core will move with the constant velocity,
obviously, there will be a curved trajectory, a parabola in the y-z, the plane where the train is moving perpendicularly to. So what I see is the vector,
1)
2)
To calculate t, you use the
distance
3)
Observer - Outside the truck, You clearly an observers on the side walk close to the truck will also see the speed of the truck so we need to adjust equation 1) and 2) as:
3)
4)
The direction is given in the x-y plane is give by the angle between
the vector given by