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Consider a particle with initial velocity v? that has magnitude 12.0 m/s and is directed 60.0 degrees above the negative x axis.
A) What is the x component v? x of v? ? (Answer in m/s)
B) What is the y component v? y of v? ? (Answer in m/s)
C) Now, consider this applet. Two balls are simultaneously dropped from a height of 5.0 m.How long tg does it take for the balls to reach the ground? Use 10 m/s2 for the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity.
a) cos(?) = adjacent / hypotenuse
cos(60) = vx
/ 12.0m/s
0.5 =vx
/12.0m/s
Since the particle is moving left, the answer will be negative (we could have also converted the angle to 120 degrees):
vx = -6.00m/s
b) sin(?) = opposite /
hypotenuse
sin(60) =
vy/ 12.0m/s
vy =
10.4 m/s
c)
y-y0 = v0t + 1/2at2
The final y position will be 5m
(5m)-(0m) =
0(t) + 1/2(10m/s2)t2
5m = (5m/s2)t2
1s2 = t2
t = 1.0s