San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal is trying to shoot t-shirts into the crowd at Oracle Park. Lou wants to deliver a t-shirt into the hands of a fan standing 40 m away horizontally but 16 m above the launch point. If he angles the t-shirt cannon 45 degrees above the horizontal, what speed does the cannon need to launch at to get the t-shirt to the fan? (You can ignore air resistance in this problem).

San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal is trying to shoot t-shirts into the crowd at Oracle Park. Lou wants to deliver a t-shirt into the hands of a fan standing 40 m away horizontally but 16 m above the launch point. If he angles the t-shirt cannon 45 degrees above the horizontal, what speed does the cannon need to launch at to get the t-shirt to the fan? (You can ignore air resistance in this problem).

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

5th Edition

ISBN:9781133104261

Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

Chapter3: Motion In Two Dimensions

Section: Chapter Questions

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