Forces and Velocities as Vectors Worksheet with Answer Key

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1. With x pointing east and y pointing north, write each velocity in component form, exactly.
   a glider's air velocity, heading 150° at 200 miles per houra wind from 090° at 24 miles per houra wind from 030° at 40 kilometers per hour
2. Mateo pilots an advertising airship over a city.
3. Lucas swims across a river 75 meters wide with straight parallel banks, always pointing straight across.
4. Campers hang a food bag from a knot between two trees.
5. Two tractors pull on chains hooked to one tree stump.
6. Naomi flies a crop-dusting plane at airspeed 110 miles per hour.
7. An airliner flies 1,200 miles due east from one city to another and then straight back, at airspeed 500 miles per hour both ways.