A bird is attempting to fly northeast at a constant speed, but a wind blowing southward at 5 miles per hour blows the bird off course. If the bird’s overall movement (incorporating its intended movement and the movement due to wind) is at a sqrt(53) miles per hour, how fast would it have been traveling if there was no wind?

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2022-08-22

A bird is attempting to fly northeast at a constant speed, but a wind blowing southward at 5 miles per hour blows the bird off course. If the bird’s overall movement (incorporating its intended movement and the movement due to wind) is at a 53 miles per hour, how fast would it have been traveling if there was no wind?

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Rocco Juarez

Rocco Juarez

Beginner2022-08-23Added 8 answers

Suppose the bird's intended movement is x mph north and x mph east at once, so 2 x mph northeast in total. The wind means that the bird is actually travelling x-5 mph north, so by the Pythagorean theorem we have x 2 + ( x 5 ) 2 = 53 or x=7. So the bird's speed without wind is 7 2 mph
hetjurnar02

hetjurnar02

Beginner2022-08-24Added 1 answers

v b i r d = v b i r d cos ( π 4 ) x ^ + v b i r d sin ( π 4 ) y ^ (   w i t h o u t    wind   ) v b i r d + = v b i r d cos ( π 4 ) x ^ + [ v b i r d sin ( π 4 ) 5 ] y ^ (   w i t h   wind   ) 53 = v b i r d + = v b i r d 2 2 + ( v b i r d 2 5 ) 2 |   v b i r d     0 v b i r d = 7 2   m h 9.8995   m h

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