Question

If a rocket is launched at a 30 degree angle, with a velocity of 36.7 m/s, an average time of 4.3025 s, and a distance of 116.63 m, what is the highest height it reaches in the air?

Answer 1

Average time of what exactly? And what's that distance supposed to be?

Your question doesn't make any sense - please restate it more accurately.

Answer 2

Average time the rocket is in the air. The distance is how far the rocket traveled. I need delta y max, or the height at the highest point the rocket reaches while in the air.

Answer 3

So your rocket is not actually a rocket but is ahm.. "thrown" ??? Or do you have numbers on how much fuel is burned and what the exhaust velocity is etc?

Distance on the ground?

Answer 4

Yes, distance on the ground. And yes, sorry, the rocket is launched from a tennis ball launcher, so thrown is correct. This was an activity we actually did in physics class, so these are real numbers.

Answer 5

Okay, just for the future - not just here online - try to be really specific and precise, when it comes to ahm.. science and stuff ^_^

Also: Where exactly are you stuck at? Have you gotten anywhere on your own, yet?

Answer 6

Yeah, sorry about that, I guess I forgot about those details. I mainly need an equation that applies to this situation. Or is it using trig? That's mostly it--I'm not really sure what I should be using to solve it.

Answer 7

Well ahm.. there's really more than one way to do it.

For starters: Do you think that - in general - the time an object stays in the air has anything to do with how far it moves horizontally?

Answer 8

Well...we got an equation [delta x = V (sub x) * delta t] where delta x was the distance covered and delta t was the change in time. That's what I assumed it was talking about.

Answer 9

Well ahm.. that equation doesn't really have to do with what you want to know at all.. so ahm.. about my previous question - what do you think?
If you were to throw 2 objects like the poor drawing I made. Would one object be longer in the air if they both reach the same height? (we are disregarding friction here, but that's ok)