A baseball is hit at Fenway Park in Boston at a point 0.762 m above home plate with an initial velocity of 33.53 m/s directed 55.0° above the horizontal. The ball is observed to clear the 11.28-m-high wall in left field (known as the “green monster”) 5.00 s after it is hit, at a point just inside the left-field foulline pole. Find (a) the horizontal distance down the left-field foul line from home plate to the wall; (b) the vertical distance by which the ball clears the wall; (c) the horizontal and vertical displacements of the ball with respect to home plate 0.500 s before it clears the wall.

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A baseball is hit at Fenway Park in Boston at a point
0.762 m above home plate with an initial velocity of 33.53 m/s directed
55.0° above the horizontal. The ball is observed to clear
the 11.28-m-high wall in left field (known as the “green monster”)
5.00 s after it is hit, at a point just inside the left-field foulline
pole. Find (a) the horizontal distance down the left-field foul
line from home plate to the wall; (b) the vertical distance by
which the ball clears the wall; (c) the horizontal and vertical displacements
of the ball with respect to home plate 0.500 s before
it clears the wall.

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