A spaceship traveling through deep space towards a space station and needs to ma
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A spaceship traveling through deep space towards a space station and needs to make a course correction to go around a nebula. The captain orders the ship to travel 3.1x10^6 kilometers before turning 2.7x10^6 kilameters before assumng the path towards the space station. If the captain had not ordered a course correction, what would have been the magintude and direction of the path of the spaceship if it had traveled through the nebula? Please show your work!
Magnitude:___________________km
Direction:________________________ degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis
Explanation / Answer
distance=((3.1*10^6)^2 + (2.7*10^6)^2)^0.5
=4.11*10^6 km (since the distances are perpendicular to each other)
direction=arctan(2.7/3.1)
=41.05 degrees
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