In: Physics
A few years ago, Serena Williams dived to hit a tennis ball right after it bounced off the ground. The ball bounced on the ground 10.5 m from the net, and after Serena hit the ball it flew over the 0.950 m high net and bounced in her opponent's court about 1.07 s after she hit it. If there had been no gravity, the ball would have been 1.88 m higher than the net when it crossed over.
How fast was the ball moving when it left Serena's racket? Ignore any effects from ball spin and air resistance.
Here the path of the ball hit by the selena is Projectile. Hence by using the concept of the projectile we complete the solution.And also, this is two dimensional problem. Hence we solve by taking horizontal and vertical components of the vector.