A drone has a weight of 12 N.
The drone hovers at rest in the air.
Draw a free body force diagram for the hovering drone. Ignore air resistance.
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.
Explain why the thrust must be greater than it was when the drone was hovering.
93 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Physics 9.1 Forces and vectors, covering 9.1.1 Interactions and types of force, 9.1.2 Vector and scalar quantities, and 9.1.3 Vector diagrams and free body diagrams. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.