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Homework Statement
"A cat leaps horizontally from a flat roof 7.5 m above the ground and lands on another flat roof 5 m above the ground and 3.5 m away horizontally.
How long, in seconds, does the leap take?"
Answer: 0.7
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
Ok, i imagined the situation as half a projectile. with the cat traveling the hypotenuse of the triangle that can be formed (2.5 and 3.5 base). I know vi = 0 at highest point of a projectile and i know that the distance is 4.3 (pythagoras) i used kinematics ( d = vit + 1/2at^2) and get an answer of 0.81..
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