A 1.50 kg snowball is fired from a cliff12.5 m high. The snowball's initial velocity is14.0 m/s, directed 41.0° above the horizontal.(a) How much work is done on the snowballby the gravitational force during its flight tothe flat ground below the cliff? (b) What isthe change in the gravitational potential en-ergy of the snowball-Earth system duringthe flight? (c) If that gravitational potentialenergy is taken to be zero at the height ofthe cliff, what is its value when the snowballreaches the ground?

Given, height of cliff, h =12.5 m initial velocity of snowball, u =14m/s mass of snowball, m = 1.5kg…

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