Question

When the Sun is directly overhead, a hawk dives toward the ground with a constant velocity of 4.10 m/s at 61.0° below the horizontal. Calculate the speed of her shadow on the level ground.
____m/s

Answer 1

When the sun is directly overhead, the projected shadow gives the horizontal position of the hawk.

The hawk is flying at a constant speed of  

Which can be split into a horizontal component and a vertical component.

The horizontal component is parallel to the ground and it gives the speed of the shadow.

So the speed of the shadow,

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