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An important piece of landing equipment must be thrown to a ship, which is moving at 45.0 cm>s, before the ship can dock. This equipment is thrown at 15.0 m>s at 60.0° above the horiz...
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According to Guinness World Records, the longest home run ever measured was hit by Roy “Dizzy” Carlyle in a minor league game. The ball traveled 188 m (618 ft) before landing on the ground outside the...
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An airplane is dropping bales of hay to cattle stranded in a blizzard on the Great Plains. The pilot releases the bales at 150 m above the level ground when the plane is flying at 75 m/s in a directio...
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A baseball thrown at an angle of 60.0° above the horizontal strikes a building 18.0 m away at a point 8.00 m above the point from which it is thrown. Ignore air resistance. (a) Find the magnitude of t...
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A water hose is used to fill a large cylindrical storage tank of diameter D and height 2D. The hose shoots the water at 45° above the horizontal from the same level as the base of the tank...
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A grasshopper leaps into the air from the edge of a vertical cliff, as shown in Fig. P3.57. Find (a) the initial speed of the grasshopper and (b) the height of the cliff. Fig. P3.57:
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In Canadian football, after a touchdown the team has the opportunity to earn one more point by kicking the ball over the bar between the goal posts. The bar is 10.0 ft above the ground, and the ball i...
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A snowball rolls off a barn roof that slopes downward at an angle of 40° (Fig. P3.59). The edge of the roof is 14.0 m above the ground, and the snowball has a speed of 7.00 m>s as it rol...
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A boy 12.0 m above the ground in a tree throws a ball for his dog, who is standing right below the tree and starts running the instant the ball is thrown. If the boy throws the ball horizontally at 8....
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