Projectile. You are working as a consultant on a video game designing a bomb site for a World War 1 airplane. In this game, the plane you are flying is traveling horizontally at 40 m/s at an altitude of 125 m when it drops a bomb. (a) Determine how far horizontally from the target you should release the bomb? (b) What direction is the bomb moving just before it hits the target?

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Projectile. You are working as a consultant on a video game designing a bomb site for a World War 1 airplane. In this game, the plane you are flying is traveling horizontally at 40 m/s at an altitude of 125 m when it drops a bomb.

(a) Determine how far horizontally from the target you should release the bomb?

(b) What direction is the bomb moving just before it hits the target?

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