Just as you throw a package from the top of a 20 m high building with initial speed Vo at an angle of 30o with the horizontal, your friend, who is running toward the building at speed 0.8Vo, is 22 m away. a) Calculate Vo in order for your friend to catch the packaqe. b) How far from the building does the friend catch the package. c) Calculate the speed at which the friend catches the package

Just as you throw a package from the top of a 20 m high building with initial speed Vo at an angle of 30o with the horizontal, your friend, who is running toward the building at speed 0.8Vo, is 22 m away. a) Calculate Vo in order for your friend to catch the packaqe. b) How far from the building does the friend catch the package. c) Calculate the speed at which the friend catches the package

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

1st Edition

ISBN:9780078807213

Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter6: Motion In Two Dimensions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 48A

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