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Given information

Given an airplane is traveling   in a direction   west of north (Fig. 3-34).

To show how far north and how far west has the plane travelled after  h?

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
The velocity of an object is given by  where  is the displacement of the object and  is the time. Therefore, the distance traveled by the airplane can be obtained by using  . There will be two distances to calculate: the horizontal distance  which corresponds to the west direction, and the vertical distance   which corresponds to the north direction.

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