Trained dolphins are capable of a vertical leap of 7.0

Chapter 3, Problem 68

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QUESTION:

Trained dolphins are capable of a vertical leap of 7.0 mBIO straight up from the surface of the water-an impressive feat.INT Suppose you could train a dolphin to launch itself out of thewater at this same speed but at an angle. What maximum horizontalrange could the dolphin achieve?

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QUESTION:

Trained dolphins are capable of a vertical leap of 7.0 mBIO straight up from the surface of the water-an impressive feat.INT Suppose you could train a dolphin to launch itself out of thewater at this same speed but at an angle. What maximum horizontalrange could the dolphin achieve?

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The maximum height of the dolphins launch is straight up direction is given as

Let  be the initial velocity of the dolphin and  be the angle of initial velocity with the horizontal.

The maximum height of the dolphin motion in terms of the initial velocity is,

………(1)

Here is the acceleration due to gravity,

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