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On a day when the wind is blowing toward the south at 1.2m/s a runner jogs west at 1.6 m/s. What is the velocity (speed and direction) of the air relative to the runner?
Question asked by: wvgirl64

Asked on: 06 Oct 2008

Hint: draw this as though they are two sides of the triangle and then use trigonometry to work out the angle and length of the third side to connect these two to get what you're after!
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Replied at: 19 Oct 2008
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