A basketball player shoots a free-throw with initial velocity v0 = 8.5 m/s at an angle θ = 18° above the horizontal. Use a Cartesian coordinate system with the origin located at the position the ball was released, with the ball’s horizontal velocity in the positive x direction and vertical component in the positive y-direction. Assume the basketball encounters no air resistance.

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A basketball player shoots a free-throw with initial velocity v0 = 8.5 m/s at an angle θ = 18° above the horizontal. Use a Cartesian coordinate system with the origin located at the position the ball was released, with the ball’s horizontal velocity in the positive x direction and vertical component in the positive y-direction. Assume the basketball encounters no air resistance.

 

a).  What is the maximum vertical height hmax, in meters, the ball attains above the release point. 

b). Determine the time, t in seconds, the basketball takes to reach its maximum vertical height. 

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