Question

stupid basketball projectile motion question from the final

Answer 1

there's a basketball that is tossed at an angle 40 degrees above the horizontal at a goal 10m away. the ball starts from 2m above the ground and goes to the hoop 3.05m above the ground. i was to find the initial velocity, time of flight, and the angle at which it enters the goal. for the life of me i could not think of a way to start this and it felt like the easiest of the long-form questions on the test. so yeah. i could not answer something as easy as this and it is bothering me. so what do i do?

Answer 2

so there it is. the question where i felt i should have known how to solve but i couldn't do anything. i didn't know how to do it. @surry99