Problem to try:
Consider a baseball hit at 40 m/s at an angle of 35 degrees. Find the following:
a. initial components of velocity
b. time to apogee
c. max height attained
d. max horizontal displacement
e. total time in air
f. the OTHER angle that would give the same horizontal displacement*
Answers:
ReplyDeletea. 32.7 m/s, 22.9 m/s
b. 2.3 seconds
c. 26.7 m
d. 75 m
e. 4.6 seconds
f. 55 degrees*
* See next blog post
Some of you caught this mistake - d should be 150 m, roughly. Thanks to all who pointed this out! -- Sean
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