Question

As part of the technical crew for the circus, you need to set up the safety net for the human canon ball. He is launched at a 45 degree at a velocity of 25 m/s. Where will you place the net?

Answer 1

So if he is launched at 25m/s at a 45 degree angle...we just need to find the horizontal component of that vector

And we know that, in this case,the horizontal component an be found using the cosine function

\[\large \cos(45) = \frac{x}{25m/s}\]

So we know that

\[\large x = 25m/s \times cos(45)\]

Answer 2

Thanks! I got it now!!

Answer 3

No problem!