USAAAO 2024, I кръг — Задача 28
USAAAO 2024 - First Round · 10 февруари 2024 г.
Problem writers
Wesley Andrade, Abhay Bestrapalli, Austin Chen, Justin Chen, Ved Gund, Hagan Hensley, Sandesh Kalantre, Evan Kim, David Lee, Joe McCarty, Arjun Patel, Sahil Pontula, Tara Rezaei, Raul Teixeira, Leo Yao, David Zhang
Условие
Questions 28-30 build upon the same prompt. Use data from any of the questions for any of the other questions.
Moving into MIT for the start of the spring semester, Austin is flying from Lubbock, Texas to Boston, MA . However, when he lands he finds that he is not in Boston. The pilots entered the latitude coordinate incorrectly! But Austin remembers that the plane left Lubbock at a bearing of . Assume that the flight still took the shortest path to the current destination. Where is Austin now?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Отговори
- D
Решение
Solution:
Consider the spherical triangle with vertices Lubbock, the new location, and the North Pole, and sides being the great circle paths connecting them (the plane travels in a great circle, since it is traveling on the shortest path). Let the side connecting Boston and the North Pole to be . Side between Lubbock and North Pole , and angle at North Pole . We can solve for using the four-parts formula:
This means the latitude of the new location is .
Answer: D
Оригинал в Архива: usaaao_first_exam_2024-3.pdf · официални решения: usaaao_first_exam_2024_solutions-1.pdf