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Oh, huh. I guess that makes perfect sense, and makes the problem a lot easier. I wonder why it's in the back of the Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum chapter though, if it doesn't include any of those concepts. Thanks for your help.

A small, solid, uniform ball is to be shot up from point P so it rolls smoothly along a horizontal path, up along a ramp, and onto a plateau. Then it leaves the plateau horizontally to land on a game board, at a horizontal distance (d=6cm) from the right edge of the plateau. The vertical...