Question

Assuming the wind blew the same direction all night, what direction, in degrees north of west, did the wind blow jack during the night?

Answer 1

The question involves physics and vector subtraction to determine the wind's speed and direction affecting an airplane's travel based on its heading and ground velocity.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking about determining the wind's speed and direction based on an airplane's velocity relative to the ground and its intended heading. To solve for this, we need to use vector subtraction since the airplane's ground velocity can be thought of as a combination of its own speed and the wind's influence. Given that the airplane is heading north at 45.0 m/s and its ground speed is 38.0 m/s at an angle west of north, the wind's speed and direction are the vectors that need to be added to the airplane's heading to equal the ground speed vector. A vector diagram would need to be drawn, and trigonometry would be used to calculate the magnitude of the wind's vector and its angle relative to the west.

Answer 2

i think it might be south east