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Questions, like the one above, haunted me for a very long time.
I used to make elaborate equations for trajectories and check if
they intersected. Yeah, boring.
While revising, I learnt this much more sensible method.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Case 1:
"The 2 projectiles are thrown towards each other from the same height."
Case 2:
"The 2 projectiles are thrown away from each other from same height"
Clearly, only the range part will change. Now, the projectile with the
longer range will have to cover a distance more than or equal to the
distance plus the range of the other projectile!
Check for that, and you are good to go!
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Case 3:
"The 2 projectile are launched, but not from the same height."
Hmm. This is slightly tricky.
Check if ranges are more than distance first, that is essential.
Then find the difference in height and difference in vertical
component of velicities, that is, the VVertical-Relative.
Use these to find out time at which both will be as same height.
As acceleration
relative
is zero,
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