his is the problem that I was given. I am asked to find the horizontal distance to collision which I found by distance/height=tan(theta). I am asked to calculate time ofcollision which I did by taking distance/speed (in km/s). I am also asked to calculate the constant A from the accleration equation. I find A by taking the intgral of the acceleration twice to find my position formula. I plug in zero for t to get A/b^2=position. I find position by taking pythagorean theorem of height and distance, then multiply what I get by b^2. My reasoning is wrong somehwere as I keep getting the wrong answers (the answers I get are shown in the second picture). Can you please exlain where I am going wrong and provide a correct example/r
this is the problem that I was given. I am asked to find the horizontal distance to collision which I found by distance/height=tan(theta). I am asked to calculate time ofcollision which I did by taking distance/speed (in km/s). I am also asked to calculate the constant A from the accleration equation. I find A by taking the intgral of the acceleration twice to find my position formula. I plug in zero for t to get A/b^2=position. I find position by taking pythagorean theorem of height and distance, then multiply what I get by b^2. My reasoning is wrong somehwere as I keep getting the wrong answers (the answers I get are shown in the second picture). Can you please exlain where I am going wrong and provide a correct example/reasoning?
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