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Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby AlphaBravo » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:12 am

An aircraft moves along a straight horizontal runway with contant acceration. It passes a point A on the runway with speed 16ms-1. It then passes the point B on the runway with a speed 34ms-1 . The distance from A to B is 150m

(a) Find the acceration of the aircraft.

(b) Find the time taken by the aircraft in moving from A to B.

(c) Find, to 3 significant figures, the speed of the aircraft when it passes the point mid-way between A and B.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Craig ;D

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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby z1010 » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:11 pm

.... is it that important to have the answers?

I fly for years now without even knowing I accelerate ;D
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby Tom. » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:57 pm

An aircraft moves along a straight horizontal runway with contant acceration. It passes a point A on the runway with speed 16ms-1. It then passes the point B on the runway with a speed 34ms-1 . The distance from A to B.

(a) Find the acceration of the aircraft.

(b) Find the time taken by the aircraft in moving from A to B.

(c) Find, to 3 significant figures, the speed of the aircraft when it passes the point mid-way between A and B.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Craig ;D


thats boffin talk i dont understand atall
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby ChuckMajik » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:01 pm

If we do your homework for you, you'll never learn.
Then you'll be royally screwed come test time.

Your best bet would be to get of your computer, and start crunching numbers.
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby Jared » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:12 pm

May I suggest pulling up an excel spreadsheet to input numbers into?

that's what I always did when working with physics questions..:-)
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby Papa9571 » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:43 pm

Or if you want you could borrow my slide rule.  ;D ;D
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby beaky » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:48 pm

What do you mean by "the distance from A to B"?
Is that part of the problem, or an answer you're looking for? If it's the former, it'd help to provide thenumber for the distance... if it's the latter, then this problem just got a whole lot harder!!
 You want the time and the distance and the speed at the midway point, and rate of acceleration? Gotta have the number for at least one of those first, don't you?   ???
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby eno » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:51 pm

From my extremely poor grasp of maths you should be able to work out the distance between A and B from the acceleration.
It's doing 16ms-1 at A....... and accelerating to 34ms-1 at B... assuming the acceleration is constant then you should be able to get the distance and therefore the rest of the figures.

Don't ask me how to do it .....I'm just thinking lateraly.
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby Craig. » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:17 pm

I believe the speed was left out when it shouldnt have been. That or this is a pretty tough one to work out.
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Re: Aircraft Problem ahhhhhhhhh

Postby beaky » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:24 pm

From my extremely poor grasp of maths you should be able to work out the distance between A and B from the acceleration.
It's doing 16ms-1 at A....... and accelerating to 34ms-1 at B... assuming the acceleration is constant then you should be able to get the distance and therefore the rest of the figures.

Don't ask me how to do it .....I'm just thinking lateraly.


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