Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard famously took two golfshots on the Moon where it’s been estimated that an expertlyhit shot could travel for 70.0 s through the Moon’s reducedgravity, airless environment to a maximum range of 4.00 km(about 2.5 miles). Assuming such an expert shot has a launchangle of 45.0°, determine the golf ball’s (a) kinetic energy asit leaves the club, and (b) maximum altitude in km above thelunar surface. Take the mass of a golf ball to be 0.045 0 kg andthe Moon’s gravitational acceleration to be gmoon = 1.63 m/s2.

Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard famously took two golfshots on the Moon where it’s been estimated that an expertlyhit shot could travel for 70.0 s through the Moon’s reducedgravity, airless environment to a maximum range of 4.00 km(about 2.5 miles). Assuming such an expert shot has a launchangle of 45.0°, determine the golf ball’s (a) kinetic energy asit leaves the club, and (b) maximum altitude in km above thelunar surface. Take the mass of a golf ball to be 0.045 0 kg andthe Moon’s gravitational acceleration to be gmoon = 1.63 m/s2.

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