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keroberous
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I'm a little new here and was hoping I might be able to get some help. This is the question I'm having problems with:
A hallway is 40 m long and 3 m high. Could a professional baseball pitcher throw a ball from one end to the other before the ball hits the ground?
I haven't really even been able to get anywhere with this problem. Basically what I figured I should do was assume a height for the picture (I chose 1.5 m, but I think that choice is irrelevant). What I initially tried to do was determine the angle at which the ball would just skim the ceiling and then use that to calculate the velocity needed to ensure that the ball landed on the floor at the base of the wall 40 m away. When I tried to do that it wasn't really working, I think I may be short on known information for that to work. Then I thought that it wasn't important that the ball touch the ceiling, but I'm not really sure what approach to take. Overall, I think I'm over-complicating the problem and confusing myself further in the process.
I realize that I don't really have much accomplished in terms of my own work, at least numerically. What I'm hoping for at least is a plan of attack, and possibly a first step. I've looked around online for help in other places but anything I find is a bit over my grade level (I'm in grade 12). Thanks so much for any help in advance.
A hallway is 40 m long and 3 m high. Could a professional baseball pitcher throw a ball from one end to the other before the ball hits the ground?
I haven't really even been able to get anywhere with this problem. Basically what I figured I should do was assume a height for the picture (I chose 1.5 m, but I think that choice is irrelevant). What I initially tried to do was determine the angle at which the ball would just skim the ceiling and then use that to calculate the velocity needed to ensure that the ball landed on the floor at the base of the wall 40 m away. When I tried to do that it wasn't really working, I think I may be short on known information for that to work. Then I thought that it wasn't important that the ball touch the ceiling, but I'm not really sure what approach to take. Overall, I think I'm over-complicating the problem and confusing myself further in the process.
I realize that I don't really have much accomplished in terms of my own work, at least numerically. What I'm hoping for at least is a plan of attack, and possibly a first step. I've looked around online for help in other places but anything I find is a bit over my grade level (I'm in grade 12). Thanks so much for any help in advance.