Question

A man with superpowers fies from the top of a building as shown in the figure (a) What are the horizontal and vertical components of the man's 164 m displacement (On m), 9-25.07 Use signs to indicate the directions of the displacement components (Use signs to indicate the directions of the displacement components.) horlzontal displacement vertical displacement (b) What if? A man observes the superhero through a window located 29.0 m below the top of the bulding. What is the superhero's position (in m) relative to the man at the end of the displacement in part (a)? (Use signs to Indicate the directions of the displacement components) hortzontal displacement vertical displacement

Answer 1

a)

Horizontal position of Superman = 164m x cos25 = 148.6 m

vertical position of Superman = 164m x sin25 = - 69.3 m ( - sign introduced since we are measuring - Y-axis)

b)

if observer is 29 m vertically below, then in his frame

horizontalposition of Superman = 148.6 m ( since there is shift observer along x-axis)

vertical position = -69.3m + 29.0 = -40.3 m