A cannonball is fired from a cliff top horizontally out to sea with a speed of 74m/s. The cliff is 320m above sea level. Calculate the speed of impact?
how do you calculate the speed of impact pls help!!
how do you calculate the speed of impact pls help!!
1 Answer
Explanation:
The question does not say anything about air resistance, so we are to ignore air resistance. This simplifies the problem significantly.
Therefore the cannonball's horizontal velocity,
- u = 0 because the cannonball is fired horizontally
#a = 9.8 m/s^2# - and s = 320 m.
Filling the data into that formula will give us the final vertical velocity,
The cannonball's speed of impact is the magnitude of its final velocity. The final velocity will be the vector sum of its
I hope this helps,
Steve