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Charlie kicks a soccer ball up a small incline. On the way up, ball’s acceleration has magnitude |a| = 0.45 m/s2 and is directed in downhill direction. Charlie kicks the ball at the bottom of the incline and then immediately start to walk up the incline with constant speed. Charlie performs twi different trials. a) In the first trial, Charlie kicks the ball with initial speed v0 = 3.4 m/s. Charlie is 2.3-m behind the ball when the ball is at the highest point. What is the speed vC of Charlie? b) Charlie performs the second trial. He kicks the ball with unknown speed v 0 0 but walks with the same speed vC as in the first trial. Charlie is now 0.8 m behind the ball when the ball is at the highest point. What is the initial speed v 0 0 of the ball at the bottom of the hill? (Hint: You need to set-up a quadratic equation for v 0 0 ).