PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
PHY 111 TUTORIAL ON PROJECTILE MOTION
QUESTION ONE
A golfer practicing on a range with an elevated tee 4.9m above the fairway is able
to strike a ball so that it leaves the club with a horizontal velocity of 20m/s.
Assume that the acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s2 and the effects of air
resistance is negligible.
a. How long after the ball leaves the club will it land on the fairway?
b. What horizontal distance will the ball travel before striking the fairway?
c. What is the balls acceleration 0.5s after being hit?
d. Calculate the ball’s speed 0.80s after it leaves the club?
e. With what speed will the ball strike the ground?
QUESTION TWO
A senior physics class conducting a research project on projectile motion
constructs a device that can launch a cricket ball. The launching device is designed
so that the ball can be launched at ground level with an initial velocity of 28m/s at
an angle of 300 to the horizontal.
a. Calculate the vertical component of velocity after 2s?
b. At what time will the ball reach its maximum height?
c. What is the maximum height that is achieved by the ball?
d. What is the acceleration of the ball at its maximum height?
e. Calculate the horizontal distance covered by the ball?
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QUESTION THREE
A ball is projected at an angle of 450 above the horizontal from a point 10m above
the ground level. It reaches the ground at a horizontal distance of 30m from the
launch point.
a. Calculate the total time it was in air?
b. Calculate the velocity with which the ball was projected?
QUESTION FOUR
In figure below a stone is projected at a cliff of height h with an initial speed of
42.0m/s directed at an angle of 600 above the horizontal. The stone strikes at A
5.50m after launching.
a. Find the height h of the cliff?
b. Calculate the speed of the stone just before impact at A.?
c. Calculate the maximum height H reached above the ground?
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QUESTION FIVE
At what initial speed must the basketball player in the figure below throw the ball
at angle of 550 above the horizontal to make a foul shot? The horizontal distances
are d1=1m and d2=14m and the heights are h1=7m and h2=10m.
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