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  • Jun 14, 2009, 02:13 AM
    Hussein19
    Projectile motion
    HI
    I am having problems understanding this question, if someone could help me as soon as possible, it will be much appreciated.

    A stunt man drives a car at a speed on 20 m/s off a 30 m high cliff. The road
    Leading to the cliff is inclined up ward at an angle of 20°.
    (I) How far from the base of the cliff does the car land?
    (ii) What is the car’s impact speed?
  • Jun 14, 2009, 04:07 AM
    Unknown008

    Sorry... hopefully, that's not too late..

    First, have a sketch; considering the vertical component, your initial speed will be 20 sin(20). Use

    to find the time taken for the car to reach the bottom of the cliff, displacement s being 30m, initial velocity u being 20 sin(20) m/s and acceleration a being 9.81m/s^2.

    Then, to find the car final speed, you have to add the vertical component of the speed and its horizontal component. Your horizontal being constant at 20 cos(20) m/s, you have to find the final vertical speed. You can use

    (u=20sin(20) m/s, a=9.81m/s^2, s=30m)

    or use the time you got before and using the formula



    however, if you made a mistake above, then using v = u+at will be wrong. Anyway, if you id it right, you should have the same answer with both formulae.

    Now, using Pythagoras' Theorem, do the square root of the sum of the square of the vertical and horizontal components,



    There! :) Hope it helped!
  • Jun 17, 2009, 10:09 AM
    arjun karki

    I think I don't know
  • Jun 17, 2009, 11:21 AM
    Unknown008

    Sigh, then what the use of posting, arjun?

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