Alice tosses a snowball from the window of her apartment. She tosses the snowball with a velocity of 4.7 m/s at an angle of 22° above the horizontal. She finds it takes 1.6 s to hit the sidewalk below. Ignore air resistance. (a) How far up from the ground is Alice’s window? (b) how far from the base of the building does the snowball land?

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Alice tosses a snowball from the window of her apartment. She tosses the snowball with a velocity of 4.7 m/s at an angle of 22° above the horizontal. She finds it takes 1.6 s to hit the sidewalk below. Ignore air resistance.
(a) How far up from the ground is Alice’s window?

(b) how far from the base of the building does the snowball land?

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