To the passengers of an aeroplane flying from east to west on the equator, the sun appears motionless. Find the velocity of the aeroplane. Neglect the height of the aeroplane and take equatorial radius of the earth = 6000 km.
Please provide me an explanation of each and every step of the solution....cause I'm a beginner in circular motion.
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62think of it like this
the velocity of the aeroplane and the sun with respect to the earth are the same.
Now can you try?
*You will need the radius of the sun's orbit.. (which is another question)
1@ Nishant bhaiyya : I didn't get ur post properly :(.
as far as i see right now velocity of aeroplane will be numerically equal to the vel. of the surface of the earth ( but in the opposite direction) --not a very precise statement
so v = ωRe = 2π24hrs x R
this should be the velocity i.e. if the revolution doesn't cause some problems
