A truck travels up a hill with a 5.7° incline. The truck has a constant speed of 22 m/s. What is the horizontal component of the
truck’s velocity? Answer in units of m/s.
1 answer:
Answer:
The horizontal component of the velocity is 21.9 m/s.
Explanation:
Please see the attached figure for a better understanding of the problem.
Notice that the vector v and its x and y-components (vx and vy) form a right triangle. Then, we can use trigonometry to find the magnitude of vx, the horizontal component of the velocity.
To find vx, let´s use the following trigonometric rule of right triangles:
cos α = adjacent / hypotenuse
cos 5.7° = vx / 22 m/s
22 m/s · cos 5.7° = vx
vx = 21.9 m/s
The horizontal component of the velocity is 21.9 m/s.
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