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Homework Statement
The question is as following:
a) A dog in a stunt takes a jump off a rook which is 40 m high above the ground and lands on the next building which is of the same height , the gap between the two buildings is 6m @ the velocity of 8 m/s .Find the range of angles at which he must take off.
There are more questions which I will post on follow up.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Now the first bit I thought of sketching a triangle in correspondence to the information available... what I found out is that we have two distances given so to find angle I would use tan theta = opposite/Adjacent = 40/6 which gives me an angle of about 81. I am also aware of the general solution of tan... which's npi +180.. however don't these range of angles look too absurd,large ?b)