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dirtbird
Okay, I'm not sure how I'm going to do this, but let's try. it is my third week of physics 101, and everything makes perfect sense, or so i thought. Our second lab, we used a ball shooter, and we shot one ball from a table onto the floor, one ball straight into the air, and one ball at a 10 degree angle. Guess which one I'm having problems with!
anyway, we shot the ball from a 10 cm height, at 10degrees, and the ball landed 199 cm away from the point of origin. So i set the problem up like this:
Yfinal= -.1 m
Yinitial= 0 m
Vyinitial= unknown
Vyfinal= unknown
A=-9.8m/s sq
T= unknown
Xfinal= 1.99 m
Xinitial= 0 m
Vx= unknown
A= 0 m/s sq
T= unknown
I have tried to explain how i tried to solve this with text, but i think i am not advanced enough to do that! essentially, i did some messy stuff with sin and cos, and came out with an initial velocity of 7.44 m/s. this is way off from the 5.75 i got for the first two experiments, and my lab partners got 2 completely different answers. I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to try to help me set up the problem. I can post what i did before if i need to, but it is proving very difficult! Thanks for any help
charla
anyway, we shot the ball from a 10 cm height, at 10degrees, and the ball landed 199 cm away from the point of origin. So i set the problem up like this:
Yfinal= -.1 m
Yinitial= 0 m
Vyinitial= unknown
Vyfinal= unknown
A=-9.8m/s sq
T= unknown
Xfinal= 1.99 m
Xinitial= 0 m
Vx= unknown
A= 0 m/s sq
T= unknown
I have tried to explain how i tried to solve this with text, but i think i am not advanced enough to do that! essentially, i did some messy stuff with sin and cos, and came out with an initial velocity of 7.44 m/s. this is way off from the 5.75 i got for the first two experiments, and my lab partners got 2 completely different answers. I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to try to help me set up the problem. I can post what i did before if i need to, but it is proving very difficult! Thanks for any help
charla