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A rescue plane flies horizontally at a constant speed searching for a disabled boat. When the...

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A rescue plane flies horizontally at a constant speed searchingfor a disabled boat. When the plane is directly above the boat, theboat's crew blows a loud horn. By the time the plane's sounddetector receives the horn's sound, the plane has traveled adistance equal to one-third its altitude above the ocean. Assumingit takes the sound 2.02 s to reach the plane, and taking the speedof sound to be 343 m/s, determine the following.

(a) the speed of the plane
m/s

(b) the altitude of the plane
m

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isthe altitude of the plane isthe distance traveled by plane after the horn is blown and it    See Answer
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