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Projectile Motion Guide

This document contains 10 problems involving projectile motion. It provides the key equations of motion for projectiles, including equations for horizontal and vertical displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The problems involve calculating values like maximum height, time of flight, range, and initial velocity given other variables like angle of launch, initial speed, and landing location.

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Projectile Motion Guide

This document contains 10 problems involving projectile motion. It provides the key equations of motion for projectiles, including equations for horizontal and vertical displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The problems involve calculating values like maximum height, time of flight, range, and initial velocity given other variables like angle of launch, initial speed, and landing location.

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Projectile motion AS Physics

18/03/2020

Ecuations of motions:

1. ∆y = v0y t + 21 gt2

2. vy = v0y + gt
vy + v0y
3. ∆y = ( )t
2
4. vy2 = v0y
2
+ 2g∆y

5. ∆x = vx t

6. ax = 0 → v0x = vx

Exercises
1. A stone is thrown horizontally at a speed of 8.0m/s from the edge of a cliff 80m in height.
How far from the base of the cliff will the stone strike the ground?

2. A toy truck moves off the edge of a table that is 1.25m high and lands 0.40m from the base of the
table.

(a) How much time passed between the moment the car left the table and the moment it hit the
floor?
(b) What was the horizontal velocity of the car when it hit the ground?

3. A hawk in level flight 135m above the ground drops the fish it caught. If the hawks horizontal speed
is 20.0m/s.
How far ahead of the drop point will the fish land?

4. A pistol is fired horizontally toward a target 120m away, but at the same height. The bullets velocity
is 200m/s.

(a) How long does it take the bullet to get to the target?
(b) How far below the target does the bullet hit?

5. A bird, traveling at 20m/s, wants to hit a waiter 10m below with his dropping (see image). In order
to hit the waiter, the bird must release his dropping some distance before he is directly overhead.
What is this distance?

6. A person stands on a tower and holds a ball so that it is 20m off the ground. If the ball is thrown
horizontally (so v0y = 0) and reach 60m. What was the speed with which the ball was thrown? Assume
no air resistance.
7. A cannon ball is fired skywards with an initial vertical velocity of vy = 40 m
s and an initial horizontal
velocity of vx = 30 m
s as shown on the right. Ignore air resistance
(a) What is the initial velocity of the ball?
(b) How long does the ball take to reach its maximum height? Assume g = 10 sm2 .
(c) What is the maximum height reached by the ball?
(d) How far does the ball land from the thrower?
(e) What is the magnitude of the velocity of the ball at ”A”?
◦
8. An object is launched at a velocity of 20 m
s in a direction making an angle of 25 upward with the
horizontal.

(a) What is the maximum height reached by the object?


(b) What is the total flight time (between launch and touching the ground) of the object?
(c) What is the horizontal range (maximum x above ground) of the object?
(d) What is the magnitude of the velocity of the object just before it hits the ground?

9. A ball is kicked at an angle of 35◦ with the ground.


(a) What should be the initial velocity of the ball so that it hits a target that is 30 meters away at a
height of 1.8 meters?
(b) What is the time for the ball to reach the target?

10. A projectile is to be launched at an angle of 30 so that it falls beyond the pond of length 20 meters as
shown in the figure.

(a) What is the range of values of the initial velocity so that the projectile falls between points M
and N?

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