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Phyzwizz
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I found one of the answers to the problem, and I took a peak, but couldn't find out how the book got the second answer.
Problem-
A batted baseball leaves the bat at an angle of θ with the horizontal and an initial velocity of v0=100 feet per second. The ball is caught by an outfielder 300 feet from home plate. Find θ if the range r of a projectile is given by.
r=1/32v02sin2θ
so 300=(1/32)(100)2sin2θ
θ=theta
I got approximately 37 degrees for one of my answers. I tried finding the second angle measure by taking the square root of 100 so I could have 2 answers but I realized that would just give me -37 degrees. I'm sure when someone answers this I will be pretty upset that I didn't see how to get the second degree angle, which the book says is 53 degrees. I plugged it into the equation and it works but how in the world do you get there.
Problem-
A batted baseball leaves the bat at an angle of θ with the horizontal and an initial velocity of v0=100 feet per second. The ball is caught by an outfielder 300 feet from home plate. Find θ if the range r of a projectile is given by.
r=1/32v02sin2θ
so 300=(1/32)(100)2sin2θ
θ=theta
I got approximately 37 degrees for one of my answers. I tried finding the second angle measure by taking the square root of 100 so I could have 2 answers but I realized that would just give me -37 degrees. I'm sure when someone answers this I will be pretty upset that I didn't see how to get the second degree angle, which the book says is 53 degrees. I plugged it into the equation and it works but how in the world do you get there.
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