A car in a movie flies off of an unfinished bridge (assume it is horizontal).  If the car was going 25 m/s at the time and the bridge is 45 m high: a)Write the givens. b)Break the car’s velocity into components c) How long was the car in the air? d) How far horizontally did the car go before it crashed?

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A car in a movie flies off of an unfinished bridge (assume it is horizontal).  If the car was going 25 m/s at the time and the bridge is 45 m high:

  1. a)Write the givens.
  2. b)Break the car’s velocity into components
  3. c) How long was the car in the air?
  4. d) How far horizontally did the car go before it crashed?

 

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