An Errand of Mercy. An airplane is dropping bales of hay to cattle stranded in a blizzard
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An Errand of Mercy. An airplane is dropping bales of hay to cattle stranded in a blizzard on the Great Plains. The pilot releases the bales at 150 m above the level ground when the plane is flying at 75 m/s in a direction 55° above the horizontal. How far in front of the cattle should the pilot release the hay so that the bales land at the point where the cattle are stranded?
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University Physics with Modern Physics
ISBN: 978-0321696861
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Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford
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