Skip to content

Course home

Sign up

9 Forces and their effects

EasyMediumHard
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182838485
Question 48
H

A drone has a weight of 12 N.

a.

The drone hovers at rest in the air.

Draw a free body force diagram for the hovering drone. Ignore air resistance.

[2]
b.

The drone tilts so that the thrust from its rotors acts at 30∘30^{\circ}30∘ to the vertical.

The drone stays at the same height and accelerates horizontally.

Draw a scale vector diagram to determine the size of the thrust and the size of the horizontal component of the thrust.

[3]
c.

Explain why the thrust must be greater than it was when the drone was hovering.

[2]
Markscheme

9 Forces and their effects Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Physics
  3. /9 Forces and their effects

Question bank