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  • Jun 22, 2008, 12:19 PM
    diaagr16
    projectile angle
    a particle is thrown over a triangle from one end of a horizontal base and gauging the vertex falls on other end of the base .if a and b are base angles and c the angle of projection, prove that
    tan c = tan a + tan b
  • Jun 23, 2008, 01:10 PM
    ebaines
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    I think you mean "grazing the vertex," not "gauging" - right?

    This is essentially a math probem -- the ony physics here is in recognizing that the path taken by the thrown particle is a parabola. Let's call the length of the base B, and the maximum height of the parabola H. If we center the parabola on the y-axis, its equation is:



    The tangent of angle "a" is and the tangent of angle "b" is . You want to show that the sum of tan(a) and tan(b) is the derivative of the parabola at x = -b/2, which is equal to tan(c). Can you take it from here?

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