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. 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

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes the monkey will get hit if he reaches the ground at the same time when the dart reaches

Answer 5

WHY/?

Answer 6

is it because even though the monkey may weigh more than the dart, with air friction in place and the speed of the dart coming out of the gun they will meet the ground at the same time?

Answer 7

No, see the diagram {IGNORE THE RUBBISH DRAWING}

Answer 8

ok?

Answer 9

The dart will travel in a parabolic trajectory and the time taken to reach the ground for monkey and dart is independent of weight and horizontal velocity of dart. For both it will be equal.

Answer 10

no the monkey will surely get hitted..the velocity doesnt matter

Answer 11

i see
that makes more sense

Answer 12

It will be equal because on both same accelaration i.e 9.8 m/s^2 is acting

Answer 13

i see

Answer 14

bcuz the falling of monkey has same acc as that of the bullet released so same height at same time

Answer 15

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