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Homework Statement Some students at Rice University have built their first gazilcher – a large slingshot (operated by five people at once, and capable of launching objects well over 100 meters in distance) constructed from surgical tubing and a cafeteria silverware basket. They wish to...

To find out the projectile speed given that the launch angle is optimized is giving me a hassle because the equation for y or x has time in it. Or am i using the wrong equation?

I appreciate the help for this problem :]

Homework Statement Consider a projectile without air resistance. Show that when the range is maximized, it may be given in terms of the maximum height Homework Equations R = 4hmax The Attempt at a Solution I tried looking upon the equation for the vector R but could not...