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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    That's ok I appreciate any help I can get. There were just two problems in this section that are giving me heart-ache and this happens to be one of them.
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    Hey, when I solve it using your expression I come up with -0.400 cm. Is that what you get as well? If you take dV=0 then the final expression I come up with is 2kx=-.064, and when I solve for x, I get -.004m
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    The book got 4.60 cm after initial release is that what you have?
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    Conservation of Mechanical Energy Problem

    A 2.00-kg ball is attached to the bottom end of a length of fishline with a breaking strength of (44.5 N) The top end of line is held stationary. The ball is released from rest with the line taut and horizontal (theta=90.0). At what angle theta(measured from the vertical) will the fishline...
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    In this case am I taking the derivative of the velocity with respect to the compression of the spring (x)?
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    In part (a) the speed of the projectile as it leaves the barrel is 1.40 m/s, and I found this out from taking the final energy=1/2 mv^2(final) subtracted from the initial energy=1/2kx^2(initial) and equating the change of energy to the negative of the frictional force*distance the projectile...
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    I don't need the height of the projectile after it leaves the cannon, just at what point inside the barrel of the cannon is the velocity the maximum. I know it's some point after the initial release from the spring because the longer the ball travels through the barrel the slower it is because...
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    How Does Friction Affect the Maximum Speed of a Projectile in a Toy Cannon?

    Need Help Not the Answer Please! A toy cannon uses a spring to project a 5.30-g rubber ball. The spring is originally compressed by 5.00 cm and has a force constant of 8.00 N/m. When the cannon is fired, the ball moves 15.0 cm through the horizontal barrel, and there is a constant force of...
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