A certain nuclear power plant is capable of producing 1.2×10^9 W of electric power. During operation of the reactor, mass is con
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The person's horizontal position is given by
and the time it takes for him to travel 56.6 m is
so your first computed time is the correct one.
The question requires a bit of careful reading, and I think there may be a mistake in the problem. The person's vertical velocity at time
is
which tells us that he would reach the ground at about . In this time, he would have traveled
But we're told that he is caught by a net at 56.6 m, which would mean that the net cannot have been placed at the same height from which he was launched. However, it's possible that the moment at which he was launched doesn't refer to the moment the cannon went off, but rather the moment at which the person left the muzzle of the cannon a fraction of a second after the cannon was set off. After this time, the person's initial vertical velocity would have been a bit smaller than
.