a stunt man plans to ski off the end a slope tilted at 20 degrees below the horizontal, the stunt man predicts (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) that he will safety clear a 10 ft wide crevasse if he is travelling at a speed of 40 ft/s at the instant when he loses contact with the slope. treat the stunt man as a point particle and assume that air resistance is negligible.
1)assuming for the sake of argument no collision, at the instant the skier has traveled a horizontal distance of 10 ft from his launch point, the scalar y component of his velocity would be equal to

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a stunt man plans to ski off the end a slope tilted at 20 degrees below the horizontal, the stunt man predicts (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) that he will safety clear a 10 ft wide crevasse if he is travelling at a speed of 40 ft/s at the instant when he loses contact with the slope. treat the stunt man as a point particle and assume that air resistance is negligible.
1)assuming for the sake of argument no collision, at the instant the skier has traveled a horizontal distance of 10 ft from his launch point, the scalar y component of his velocity would be equal to