Question

a midsummer event, your sailing club schedules a three-day trip. On day one, you sail from the club site to an island 7.50 km in a direction 26.0° west of north. On day two, you sail to a second island in a direction 70.0° east of south, and on day three, you return to the club by sailing 30.0° south of west. Determine the following. (a) distance between the first and second island 7.824 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. Represent each day's journey by a vector and draw a rough (not to scale) sketch showing the trip for each day and all angles. What should be the value of the vector sum of the three legs of the trip? See if you can write x and y component equations for the entire trip and then solve these two equations for the distance between the first and second island. km (b) distance between the second island and the club site 4.694 Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. Represent each day's journey by a vector and draw a rough (not to scale) sketch showing the trip for each day and all angles. What should be the value of the vector sum of the three legs of the trip? See if you can write x and y component equations for the entire trip and then solve these two equations for the distance between the second island and the club site. km

Answer 1