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Homework Statement
A rubber ball is dropped onto a ramp that is tilted at 20°. A bouncing ball obeys the "law of reflection" which says that the ball leaves the surface at the angle it approached the surface. The ball's next bounce is 3 m to the right of its first bounce. What is the ball's rebound speed on its first bounce?
Homework Equations
All kinematics equations. Maybe projectile motion equations
http://www.tvdsb.ca/webpages/pcowling/files/equation%20sheet.pdf"
The Attempt at a Solution
I thought of this question like a projectile motion question. Cause the ball is dropped, it travels a distance in the air in a curved path, then lands at a point away from the starting point. So, we know that Δx=3 m, Δy=-1.09 m, and the ball's launch angle is 50° above the horizontal (The ball's angle with the ramp is 70° and since the ramp is 20°, the angle with the horizontal becomes 50°). We also know the vertical acceleration due to gravity is -9.8 m/s. So basically, I've got a bunch of random pieces of information, but I don't know what to do with them...
Any help would be most appreciated :)
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