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Physics Force & Laws Of Motion Level: High School

A fire airplane carries a 620 kg bucket at the end of a cable 20.0m long as shown in the drawing that I made . As the helicopter flies to a fire at a constant speed of 40.0 m/s the cable makes an angle of 40.0 degrees with respect to the vertical . The bucket presents a cross-sectional area of 3.80m^2 (squared) in a plane perpendicular to the air moving past it . (The density of the air is 1.20 kg/m^3 (cubed) what is the tension in the cable ? What is the horizontal resistive force on the air on the bucket? What is the drag coefficient assuming that the resistive force is proportional to the square of the buckets speed ?