A baseball is hit at angle theta and is caught at the same height from which it was it. If the ball is hit at a 30 degee angle, with what speed must it leave the bat to travel 100m?
*it should say hit
at first, I was thinking tha i might need to use the range formula, bu since its not asking me for that, I'm assuming that I would need to first find the intial time to leave the bat
So would i need to use the quadratic formula in this?
use kinematic equation. Same height caught = imagine that the position of y = 0. It would be helpful to have 2 equations, 1 for the x direction, and one for the y direction. X has no acceleration, while y-component does.
Perhaps, you can use \[x=\frac{vi^2}{g} \sin2\theta i\] You should be able to get the value of Vi, the one that you are looking for.
okay i'll try that and see what i get.
Join our real-time social learning platform and learn together with your friends!