Romeo is throwing pebbles gently up to Juliet’s window,

Chapter 3, Problem 56GP

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Romeo is throwing pebbles gently up to Juliet’s window, and he wants the pebbles to hit the window with only a horizontal component of velocity. He is standing at the edge of a rose garden 8.0 m below her window and 8.5 m from the base of the wall (Fig. 3–49). How fast are the pebbles going when they hit her window?

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QUESTION:

Romeo is throwing pebbles gently up to Juliet’s window, and he wants the pebbles to hit the window with only a horizontal component of velocity. He is standing at the edge of a rose garden 8.0 m below her window and 8.5 m from the base of the wall (Fig. 3–49). How fast are the pebbles going when they hit her window?

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Problem 56

Romeo is throwing pebbles gently up to Juliet’s window, and he wants the pebbles to hit the window with only a horizontal component of velocity. He is standing at the edge of a rose garden 8.0 m below her window and 8.5m from the base of the wall (Figure). How fast are the pebbles going when they hit her window?

                   

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The vertical displacement is m

Choose upward to be the positive y direction, in the vertical direction,acceleration

 ,Choose upward to be the positive y direction.

The velocity at the window is

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