Question

A park ranger wants to shoot a monkey hanging from a branch of a tree with a tranquilizing dart. The ranger aims directly at the monkey, not realizing that the dart will follow a parabolic path and thus will fall below the monkey. The monkey, however, sees the dart leave the gun and lets go of the branch to avoid being hit. Will the monkey be hit anyway? Does the velocity of the dart affect your answer, assuming that it is great enough to travel the horizontal distance to the tree before hitting the ground?

Answer 1

 i belive it will hit the money

Answer 2

The monkey will be hit because the force of gravity accelerates all objects to the center of the earth at equal rates. Because of this, the dart and monkey will fall the same distance in the same amount of time. Since the park ranger aimed directly at the monkey, the dart will still hit the monkey due to the fact that it falls to an equal point as the monkey.


The velocity of the dart doesn't not affect the answer.