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Given information
Given an airplane is traveling in a direction west of north (Fig. 3-34).
To find the components of the velocity vector in the northerly and westerly directions.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Draw a diagram of the vector and its and components. Choose the positive axis to be to the right and the positive axis to up. The angle is given as west of north. Therefore, the angle from the negative axis is
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