Calculating Work for a Fired Projectile

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Homework Statement


a 4kg projectile is fired on Earth with intiial velocity 40m/s at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal. what work was done in firing the projectile?


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I got 5542 J. Answer is suppsoedly 3200J
 
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The work done is the change in kinetic energy. The mass goes from 0 to 40 m/s. So the change in kinetic energy is?