A player throws a ball towards a high wall. The ball leaves the player's hand at a height of 2 meters above the ground with a velocity of 5.00 m/s at an angle of 30°. The wall is at a horizontal distance 4.00 meters away from the player. At what height above the ground will the ball hit the wall?

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A player throws a ball towards a high wall. The ball leaves the player's hand at a
height of 2 meters above the ground with a velocity of 5.00 m/s at an angle of 30°. The
wall is at a horizontal distance 4.00 meters away from the player. At what height
above the ground will the ball hit the wall?
Wall
Y=2 m
X=4 m
Transcribed Image Text:A player throws a ball towards a high wall. The ball leaves the player's hand at a height of 2 meters above the ground with a velocity of 5.00 m/s at an angle of 30°. The wall is at a horizontal distance 4.00 meters away from the player. At what height above the ground will the ball hit the wall? Wall Y=2 m X=4 m
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Projectile

A projectile is an object that is thrown without any fuel. Generally, a projectile is thrown with a velocity that makes an angle with respect to the horizontal. Examples of a projectile are a meteor falling from the sky and an artillery gun firing towards enemy positions. 

Let us consider that a projectile is thrown with a velocity v at an angle θ with respect to the horizontal above a height h

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The component of velocity along the X and Y directions are

vx=vcosθvy=vsinθ

The X coordinate of the projectile at any later time t considering the base of the building as the origin 

x=vxt=vcosθ t

The Y coordinate of the projectile at any later time t is

y=h+vyt-12gt2y=h+vsinθt-12gt2

From the parametric equation for X direction

t=xvcosθ

Substituting this in the Y equation

y=h+vsinθ×xvcosθ-g2×xvcosθ2y=h+xtanθ-gx22v2cos2θ

 

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