An arrow is shot at 27.0° above the horizontal. Its velocity is 49 m/s, and it hits the target.
(a) What is the maximum height the arrow will attain?
I got this, it is 25.22m
(b) The target is at the height from which the arrow was shot. How far away is it?
This is what is giving me extreme troubles.
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In order to solve this, and all projectile motion questions, you need to break it apart into x and y components.
In the x direction, you have no acceleration and constant velocity because we are disregarding wind resistance, so you have v=d/t and the x component of d is what we're looking for.
And in the y direction, you have acceleration due to gravity. In order to find the x distance that the question is asking, you need to first find t in the y direction as we are given more info that way and we need it as it is the connector between the two equations because time doesn't change. For the y direction you will have one of the 5 acceleration formulas to manipulate to solve for t.
X: dx=???
. vx= cos27 x 49 m/s..... (horizontal component of the initial velocity)
. t=? (will find using y component)
Y: Vyi=sin27 x 49 m/s... (vertical component of the initial velocity)
. Vyf=-Vyi ....(how ever hard you throw something upward, it will come down with the same velocity)
. ay= -9.81m/s^2
. t=?
ay=(Vyf-Vyi)/t ----> rearrange for time
t= (Vyf-Vyi)/ay ----> plug and solve
t= (-22.25-22.25)/-9.81
t= 4.54s
Plug t into your X component equation v=d/t or d=vt
d=(49 x cos27)(4.54)
d=43.66 x 4.54
d=198.21
d=198m
Hope that helped! :)