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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 3 Problem 56GP

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?

Solution

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?

                   

                                                              Step by Step Solution

Step 1 of 3

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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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

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

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