A water balloon is thrown by Sandra out of her dormitory window at an angle of 60o. It lands at the feet of Chris, who is standing a horizontal distance of 6.00 m from the building. If it takes 2.50 s to reach Chris’s feet ?
how to determine the height h that Sandra threw it from.
how to determine the height h that Sandra threw it from.
1 Answer
Dec 13, 2015
Explanation:
The situation is like this:
In the convention I use, up is +ve, down is -ve.
The horizontal component of the velocity is constant so:
Now we can use:
Using the sign convention this becomes:
This means that Sandra threw it from a height of