Ah, yep thanks. It's certainly a ride going back to mechanics 1.5 years after freshman year. I just for some reason totally forgot it's up to me in this situation how I want to break up the force components and that I don't need a concrete surface to be in contact with it for me to work with the...
I suppose it is. I just tried out the problem with the probably better free body assumption of an arbitrary position in flight and it works out perfectly. I guess I had some sort of problem with how this approach would somehow incorporate the existence of the incline's angle, but it turns out it...
So this was a textbook problem my professor did in lecture. I felt like I followed along with the logic as she went along, but after a few days and looking back it, I can't seem to recreate it genuinely.
Homework Statement
A ball is thrown with initial speed v0 up an inclined plane. The...