a) 92.7 m/s, 37.5 m/s
The initial horizontal and vertical velocity are given by the equations:
where
u = 100 m/s is the initial velocity of the ball
is the angle of projection
So, the horizontal component of the initial velocity is
While the vertical component is
b) 3.83 s
The time at which the ball reaches the maximum height can be found by analyzing the vertical motion only.
In fact, the vertical velocity of the ball is given by
where
is the acceleration of gravity (in the downward direction)
t is the time
The ball reaches the maximum height when the vertical velocity becomes zero:
So, solving for t, we find the time at which this happens:
c) 92.7 m/s
As stated in part b), the vertical velocity of the ball at the maximum height is zero:
Along the horizontal direction, insteand, the motion of the ball is uniform, since there are no forces acting in this direction. Therefore, the horizontal velocity of the ball is constant (because the horizontal acceleration is zero), and it is
And therefore, the velocity of the ball at the maximum height is simply equal to the horizontal velocity:
d) 71.7 m
The maximum height of the ball can be found by studying again the vertical motion only, by using the following suvat equation:
where
s is the vertical displacement at time t
We know that the ball reaches the maximum height when t = 3.83 s, so we can find the vertical displacement at that time:
So, the maximum heigth is 71.7 m.
e) 5.93 s
We know that the ball lands on a building whose height is
h = 50 m
This means that when the ball lands, its vertical displacement is
s = 50 m
So, we can use again the equation
To find t, the time at which the ball lands. Substituting:
s = 50 m
The equation becomes
which gives two solutions:
t = 1.72 s
t = 5.93 s
The first solution is the moment at which the ball reaches the height of h = 50 m for the first time (before reaching its maximum height), so we ignore it, and therefore the ball lands after
t = 5.93 s