27b. You're in an airplane that flies horizontally with speed 1000 km/h (280 m/s) when an engine falls off. Ignore air resistance and assume it takes 30 s for the engine to hit the ground. What is the horizontal distance that the aircraft engine moves during its fall

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Gia Mcmahon

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27 June, 20:51

27b. You're in an airplane that flies horizontally with speed 1000 km/h (280 m/s) when an engine falls off. Ignore air resistance and assume it takes 30 s for the engine to hit the ground. What is the horizontal distance that the aircraft engine moves during its fall

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Mohammed James · Answer 1

8400m

Explanation:

The engine that falls off would have the same constant horizontal velocity as the airplane's when if falls off if we ignore air resistance. So it would have a horizontal velocity of 280m/s for 30seconds before it hits the ground.

Therefor the horizontal distance the engine travels during its fall is

280 * 30 = 8400m