Name: ___________________________ Period: ______ Date: __________________

2.3 Horizontal Projectile Worksheet

1) A tiger leaps horizontally from a 6.5 meter high rock wall
with a speed of 3.5 m/s. How far away from the base of
the wall will she land?

2) A ball is thrown horizontally from the roof of a building 45.0 meters tall and lands
24.0 meters from the base. What is the ball’s initial speed?

3) A ball thrown horizontally at 22.2 m/s from the roof of a building lands 36.0 meters from the base of
the building. How tall is the building?

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4) The pilot of an airplane traveling 180 km/hr wants to drop supplies to flood victims isolated on a
patch of land 160 meters below. How many seconds before the plane is directly overhead should
the pilot drop the supplies?

5) A diver initially moving horizontally with speed v dives off the edge of a vertical cliff and
lands in the water a distance d from the base of the cliff. How far from the base of the cliff
would the diver have landed if the diver initially had been moving horizontally with speed
2v?
(A) d (B) 2 d (C) 2d (D) 4d

6) A target T lies flat on the ground 3 m from the side of a building that is 10 m tall, as shown
above. A student rolls a ball off the horizontal roof of the building in the direction of the
target. Air resistance is negligible. The horizontal speed with which the ball must leave the
roof if it is to strike the target is most nearly

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(A) 3/10 m/s (B) 2 m/s (C) m/s (D) 3 m/s
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