Can anyone show me how to solve this showing all the steps?
What are the horizontal and vertical components of the 125m displacement of a superhero who flies down from the top of a building at an angle of 25degress below the horizontal?
2006-09-26 09:15:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
he/she flew down the hypotenuse of a triangle. The hypotenuse was 125 m long.
The angle between the line he flew and wall of the building was 25 degrees.
You want to find the other two sides of the triangle. The hight of the building and the distance from the base of the building to where he landed.
sin(25) = horizontal displacement/125
cos(25) = vertical displacement/125
2006-09-26 09:21:23 · answer #1 · answered by DanE 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi. This is more trig than physics. Draw a vertical line for the building's wall, draw a second line for the ground perpendicular to the wall. Draw a line at 25 degrees through the two other lines. This forms a triangle.You know the hypotenuse (125m) and the top angle (25 deg), solve for the two adjacent sides.
2006-09-26 16:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋