A gun fires a bullet horizontally from a height of 50.0 m above level ground. The bullet emerges from the gun with a speed of 350 ms-1 . a) Calculate the total time the bullet remains in the air b) Calculate the horizontal distance from the firing point that the bullet strikes the ground. c) Calculate the magnitude of the vertical component of the bullet’s velocity at the instant just before it strikes the ground.

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A gun fires a bullet horizontally from a height of 50.0 m above level ground. The bullet emerges from the gun with a speed of 350 ms-1 .

a) Calculate the total time the bullet remains in the air

b) Calculate the horizontal distance from the firing point that the bullet strikes the ground.

c) Calculate the magnitude of the vertical component of the bullet’s velocity at the instant just before it strikes the ground.

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