Projectile Motion (No initial velocity)

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Homework Statement


A salmon starts 2.00 m from a waterfall that is 0.55 m tall and jumps at an angle of 32.0. What must be the salmon's minimum initial speed to reach the waterfall.


Homework Equations


[tex]\Delta[/tex]y=visin[tex]\Theta[/tex][tex]\Delta[/tex]t+1/2g[tex]\Delta[/tex]t2

The Attempt at a Solution


I have tried all the related formulas for projectile motion, and I felt like I got somewhere a few times. But the results aren't really checking with a graphing calculator.
 
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What have you tried so far? And what exactly does the graphing calculator not agree with?