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A dish is launched off a 0.8 m high table and lands 1.5 m away from the edge away from the edge of the table
if the table as measured horizontally. A) Draw a diagram B) How long does it take the di...
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A daredevil wants to jump their motorcycle over a ramp that they have built with a slope 18° above the
horizon. The daredevil wants to hit the jump ramp going 40 km/h. The daredevil is plannin...
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An 8.0-meter outfield wall is located 155 meters away from home plate. a) How long will it take for the ball to
reach the wall? b) Does the ball make it over the 8-meter wall for a home run? Suppor...
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A diver jumps from a board which level with the water, with an initial velocity of 9 m/s at an angle of 32
degrees. How long does it take the diver to hit the water?
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A) A baseball thrown from the outfield is released from shoulder height at an initial velocity of 29.4 m/s at an
initial angle of 30.0 degrees with respect to the horizontal. If it is in its trajec...
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A hippo is launched at 78 m/s at 62 degrees above the horizontal. When is it 42 m above the ground?
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Michael Jordan was said to have a hang time of 3 seconds. Use kinematic equations to determine the height
to which MJ could leap if he had a hang time of 3 seconds. Hint: You are solving for distan...
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In the latest Indian Jones film, Indy is supposed to throw a grenade from his car, which is going 71.0 km/h, to
his enemy's car, which is going 117 km/h. The enemy's car is 15.0 m in front of the I...
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An arrow is shot horizontally out of a tree stand that is 2.45 meters above the ground. The arrow's velocity is
32.5 m/s. How far will the arrow fly before hitting the ground?
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A ball is launched horizontally from a projectile launcher that is 0.86 m above the ground. The ball lands 1.12
m away from the ground below the canon. If the canon was reset to 35 degrees and the...
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A toy rocket is fired off the ground at a target 24 feet away. It is designed to reach a maximum height of 36
feet as it heads toward its target on a parabolic path. Find the equation that represen...
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A pumpkin is launched from the ground at an angle of 60 degrees above the horizontal. The pumpkin strikes
the center of a target that is 80 ft from the pumpkin launcher and 48 ft above the ground....
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A squirrel leaps from one tree branch over to another at the same height. If the squirrel has a Vix = 10 m/s,
and a Viy = 10 m/s, what is the angle, up from the horizontal at which she jumps?
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If you have a cannon that could only fire at one speed, but you could adjust the angle at which it fires, would it
be possible to hit the exact same spot from two different launch angles?
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For projectiles fired horizontally, what factors will make a projectile shoot the furthest distance?
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A ball rolls off of a table with an initial velocity in the x-direction of 2 m/s. If the table is 1.5 m tall, how long
will the ball be in the air?
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A projectile of mass 0.40 kg is launched at an angle of theta = 60 degrees with an initial speed of 25 m/s. A)
What is the maximum height reached by the projectile? B) What are the x and y compone...
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A human cannonball is about to be launched out of a cannon at a circus. They need to know where to set up
the net to safely land at the other end. They know that the cannon will launch them with an...
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A delivery drone is flying in the air with your latest purchase from Amazon. The drone is flying along with an x-
velocity of 12 m/s, at a height of 40 m. If the drone simply drops the package in or...
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Rachel dives into a lake from the top of a cliff. If she takes 1.2 seconds to fall to the water, and she goes an x-
distance of 5.4 m, what was her v-initial and her v-final in the y-direction?
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A human cannonball is about to be launched out of a cannon at a circus. They need to know where to set up
the net to safely land at the other end. They know that the cannon will launch them with an...
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A ball rolls off of a table with an initial velocity in the x-direction of 2 m/s. If the table is 1.5 m tall, how far in
the x-direction will the ball go?
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A delivery drone is flying in the air with your latest purchase from Amazon. The drone is flying along with an x-
velocity of 12 m/s, at a height of 40 m. If the drone simply drops the package in or...
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Baseballs are thrown from the same height, with the same speed but at different angles. Rank them from the
longest time in the air to the shortest time in the air. A) 90 degrees B) 0 degrees C) 60...
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Where will the total velocity (V-total = sqrt (Vix^2) + (Viy^2)) for a projectile be the smallest value?
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Baseballs are thrown from the same height, with the same speed but at different angles. Rank them from the
farthest x-distance to the shortest x-distance they will reach. A) 90 degrees B) 0 degrees...
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Rachel dives into a lake from the top of a cliff. If she takes 1.2 seconds to fall to the water, and she goes an x-
distance of 5.4 m, what was her v-initial in the x-direction?
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A car drives off a cliff going at an unknown velocity (in the x-direction). If it falls off a cliff that is 500 m tall,
and hits 300 m away (in the x-direction), how fast was it driving?
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A squirrel leaps from one tree branch over to another at the same height. If the squirrel has a Vix = 10 m/s,
and a Viy = 10 m/s, how far away (x-direction) will it land on the other tree branch?
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A trebuchet fires a projectile at an angle of 59 degrees with a velocity of 68 m/s. What is the maximum height
(y-peak) the projectile reaches at the apex of its trajectory? A) 2.6 m B) 135.7 m C)...
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A rock is kicked from the ground with a velocity of 15 m/s at an angle of 15 degrees above the horizontal.
What is the range (x-distance) of the rock?
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A tennis ball is hit down at an angle of 30 degrees below the horizontal from a height of 2 m. It is initially
traveling at 5.0 m/s. What is the velocity of the ball when it hits the ground if we c...
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A projectile is fired with an initial speed of 120 m/s at an angle of 55 degrees above the horizontal from the
top of a cliff 50 m high. Find the range and the x and y components of the final veloc...
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During the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard was the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon. If a golf ball
was launched from the Moon's surface with a velocity of 50 m/s and the acceleration du...
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A football is kicked from the ground with an initial speed of 16 m/s at an angle of 24 degrees to the
horizontal. At what two times will the ball have a height of 1 m? Assume the kick happens at t...
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A projectile is launched at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal with a speed of 30 ms^-1. Assuming that
there is no air resistance, how does the horizontal component of its velocity 1.0 s afte...
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A baseball is hit with an initial velocity of 20 m/s at an angle of 22 degrees above the horizontal and at an
initial height of .9 m. A) How high will the baseball go? B) How far will the basebal...
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A long jumper has a goal of jumping 8.9 meters. They are in the air for a total of 1.89 seconds. They have a
projection angle of 35 degrees above the horizontal. Assume that they are not starting a...
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A discus thrower located 245 m above the ground hurls a discus into the air with an initial speed of 22 m/s
and at an angle of 0 degrees with respect to the horizontal. Find the angle that the path...
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A baseball is hit with an initial velocity of 20 m/s at an angle of 22 degrees above the horizontal and at an
initial height of 0.9 m. A) How high will the baseball go? B) How far will the baseball...
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If a projectile is shot vertically up into the air with an initial velocity of 181 ft per second from the initial height
of 125 ft off the ground, then the height of the projectile, h in feet, t in...
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You throw a ball with a speed of 25.0 m/s at an angle of 40 deg above the horizontal directly toward a wall.
The wall is 22.0 m from the release point of the ball. a) How long does the ball take to...
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A daredevil wants to jump their motorcycle over a ramp that they have built that has a slope 18 degrees above
the horizon. The daredevil wants to hit the jump ramp going 40 km/h. The daredevil is p...
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A golfer at the driving range hits a golf ball with an initial speed of 35.8 m/s at an angle of 13 deg above the
horizon. The ball goes up into the air and then lands in a patch of grass that is 20...
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A cannonball is fired with initial speed vo at an angle 30 degrees above the horizontal from a height of 40 m
above the ground. The projectile strikes the ground with a speed of 1.2v0. Find vo. Ign...
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You are on the roof of a building that is 150 m tall and armed with a tennis ball launcher that fires tennis balls
at a speed of 35 m/s. Another building is 100 m away from your building. You are t...
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A marble rolls off a tabletop 1.0 m high and hits the floor at a point 3.0 m away from the table's edge in the
horizontal direction. (a) How long is the marble in the air? (b) What is the speed of...
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Wiley Coyote has missed the elusive road runner once again. This time, he leaves the edge of the cliff at 52.4
m/s horizontal velocity. If the canyon is 140 m deep, how far from his starting point...
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A stone is thrown at an angle of 30 deg above the horizontal from the top edge of a cliff with an initial speed
of 8.0 m/s. A stopwatch measures the stone's trajectory time from the top of the clif...
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A cannonball is shot at 60 degrees above the horizontal. If its horizontal velocity at the top of its arc is 22.5
m/s north, at what velocity was it shot?
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A golfer hits a ball in such a way that its initial trajectory is at an angle theta = 50 degrees above the
horizontal, with a speed of u = 45 m s^-1. The ball lands some distance away at a point th...
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A ball is thrown straight upward and returns to the thrower's hand after 3.00s in the air. A second ball is
thrown at an angle of 30.0 with the horizontal. At what speed must the second ball be thr...
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A baseball leaves the bat with a speed of 47 m/s and an angle of 45 degrees above the horizontal. A 5.0 m
high fence is located at the horizontal distance of 137 m from the point where the ball is...
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A child runs down an 11-degree hill and then suddenly jumps upward at a 15-degree angle above horizontal
and lands 1.2 m down the hill as measured along the hill. What is the child's initial speed?
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How many watts are required to raise a baseball against Earth's gravity when a major league baseball player
hits a home run? Assume a baseball has a mass of 150 g and it takes 1 second to reach a m...
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A stone is thrown from the top of a building upward at an angle of 30 degrees of the horizontal with an initial
velocity of 20 m/s. If the height of the building is 45 m, how long does it take the...
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A rock is thrown into the air. The distance h in feet between the rock and the ground. After t seconds it is
thrown by h(t) = - 16t^2 + 144t + 352. Determine the time when the rock hit the ground.
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An airplane traveling 60.9 m/s at 27.3 degrees below the horizontal when it drops off a package. If the
horizontal distance between the point of release and the point at which the package hit the g...
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A car drives straight off the edge of a cliff that is h = 40 m high. The police at the scene of the accident note
that the point of impact is d = 86 m from the base of the cliff. Here, the initial...
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A football kicker is attempting a field goal from 180 m away. The ball is kicked and passes just below the
crossbar of the goalpost after the time interval of 20 s. If there is no air resistance an...
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An object is propelled at a velocity of 29 m/s in a direction making an angle of 22 degrees with the horizontal.
Find the magnitude of the velocity vector and the angle that it makes with the horiz...
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A football kicker is attempting a field goal from 180 m away. The ball is kicked and passes just below the
crossbar of the goalpost after the time interval of 20 s. If there is no air resistance an...
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A boy kicks a rock off a cliff with a speed of 15.5 m/s at an angle of 60.0 degrees above the horizontal. The
rock hits the ground 5.90 s after it was kicked. How high is the cliff?
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Having gained entry into the local aquarium, a bobcat launches himself into projectile motion with a velocity
of 12.0 m/s directed 30 degrees above the horizontal. At the instant of his launch the...
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Having gained entry into the local aquarium, a bobcat launches himself into projectile motion with a velocity
of 12.0 m/s directed 30 degrees above the horizontal. At the instant of his launch the...
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Having gained entry into a local aquarium, a bobcat launches himself into projectile motion with a velocity of
12.0 m/s directed 30 degrees above the horizontal. At the instant of his launch the ca...
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Having gained entry into a local aquarium, a bobcat launches himself into projectile motion with a velocity of
12.0 m/s directed 30 degrees above the horizontal. At the instant of his launch a cat...
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Having gained entry into a local aquarium, a bobcat launches himself into projectile motion with a velocity of
12.0 m/s directed 30 degrees above the horizontal. At the instant of his launch the ca...
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A boy kicks a rock off a cliff with a speed of 15.5 m/s at an angle of 60.0 degrees above the horizontal. The
rock hits the ground 5.90 s after it was kicked. What is the speed of the rock right be...
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An airplane traveling 60.9 m/s at 27.3 degrees below the horizontal when it drops off a package. If the
horizontal distance between a point of release and the point at which the package hit the gro...
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A baseball is hit from a height of 4 feet above the ground with an initial velocity of 166 feet per second and at
an angle of 47 degrees above the horizontal. (a) What is the maximum height reached...
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A boy kicks a rock off a cliff with a speed of 15.5 m/s at an angle of 60.0 degrees above the horizontal. The
rock hits the ground 5.90 s after it was kicked. What is the maximum height of the rock...
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An object is propelled at a velocity of 29 m/s in a direction making an angle of 22 degrees with the horizontal.
Find the maximum height reached by the object.
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An object is propelled at a velocity of 29 m/s in a direction making an angle of 22 degrees with the horizontal.
Find the total flight time of the object.
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An object is propelled at a velocity of 29 m/s in a direction making an angle of 22 degrees with the horizontal.
Find the horizontal range of the object.
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From the window of a building, a ball is tossed from a height y, above the ground with an initial velocity of
9.00 m/s at an angle of 22.0 degrees below the horizontal. It strikes the ground 6.00 s...
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The time of flight of a projectile, fired over level ground, with initial velocity v_0 at angle theta, is equal to
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An object is fired into the air from ground level with a speed of 38 m/s at an angle of 45 degrees above the
horizontal. The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m / s^2 and the ground is level. A. W...
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An object is fired into the air from ground level with a speed of 38 m/s at an angle of 45 degrees above the
horizontal. The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s2 and the ground is level. (a) Wha...
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A Grasshopper leaps into the air from the edge of a vertical cliff, as shown in the figure below: Find the height
of the cliff
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An object is shot from point A as shown and lands at point B. Find the horizontal distance from A to B
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A fireworks shell is shot from the top of a 110-foot tall building with an initial velocity of 300 feet per second.
Its height in feet, after t seconds, is given by the function h(t) = -16t^2 + 300...
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An explosion causes debris to rise vertically with an initial speed of 120 feet per second. The formula h =
-16t^2 + 120t describes the height of the debris above the ground, h, in feet, t seconds...
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A projectile is fired at an angle of 63 degrees above the horizontal at a speed of 100 m/s. Calculate the
direction of its velocity (above the horizontal) at t = 10 s. Express your answer in degrees.
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A grasshopper leaps into the air from the edge of a vertical cliff, as shown in the figure below. Assume that
d_1 = 6.15 cm, d_2 = 1.09 m, and that theta = 55 degrees. Use the information given to...
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A projectile is fired at an angle of 63 above the horizontal at a speed of 100 m/s. Calculate the direction of its
velocity (above the horizontal) at t = 15 s. Express your answer in degrees.
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A projectile is fired at an angle of 63 degrees above the horizontal at a speed of 100 m/s. Calculate the
magnitude of its velocity at t = 15 s. Express your answer in meters per second.
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A water slide is constructed so that swimmers, starting from rest at the top of the slide, leave the end of the
slide traveling horizontally as the drawing shows, one person hits the water 5.00 m f...
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The highest mountain on planet Mars is Olympus Mons, rising 27,000 meters above the Martian surface.
Since you always have it with you, you shoot your Physics textbook horizontally off the mountain...
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When kicking a ball the kicker rotates his leg about the hip joint. If the velocity of the kicker's shoe is 35 m/s
and the hip joint is 1.05 m from the tip of the shoe. Find the maximum range of fo...
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A ceramic figurine is launched at 30 m/s at 27.4 degrees above horizontal. What is its speed when it reaches