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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 3 Problem 71GP

Question

A basketball is shot from an initial height of (Fig. ) with an initial speed \(v_{0}=12 \mathrm{\ m} / \mathrm{s}\) directed at an angle \(\theta_{0}=35^{\circ}\) above the horizontal. ( ) How far from the basket was the player if he made a basket? ( ) At what angle to the horizontal did the ball enter the basket?

Solution

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A basketball is shot from an initial height of  with an initial speed  directed at an angle  above the horizontal is shown below figure.

The kinematic equation that relates the vertical displacement of basketball and its time of flight is,

Here,  is time of the flight,  is the initial distance covered in vertical direction,  is the final distance,  is the initial component of velocity in vertical direction, and  is the acceleration.

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

A basketball is shot from an initial height of 2.40m (Fig.

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