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Thank you BvU for your reply! Not a complete solution but very useful :) I'll keep trying based on what u propose and see if I can get any further...

Homework Statement A projectile is thrown from a point A on an inclined plane field of unknown slope α, and hits the field on a point B. We know the angle between the initial velocity and the field: θ. We know the magnitude of the velocity: V. We know the the acceleration of gravity: g. We...

I think the problem is somehow equivalent to finding the slope of a field given the slant range and the initial velocity vector of a projectite, but I couldn't go any further from there...

Yes, I started by doing that. I ended up with a 4th degree polynomial with long and complex symbolic coefficients. I checked up the general form of the solution for 4th degree equation and it's huge even without long and complex symbolic coefficients. isn't there any easyer way to solve it...

< Mentor Note -- thread moved to HH from the technical physics forums, so no HH Template is shown >[/color] Hello, I'v been trying to find an answer for this question for quite some time, I always hit a complex trigonometric equation or a 4th degree polynomial equation. any help would be very...