Question

Please help! A fox sees a piece of carrion being thrown from a hawk’s nest and rushes to snatch it. The nest is 14.0 m high, and the carrion is thrown with a horizontal velocity of 1.5 m/s. The fox is 7.0 m from the base of the tree. What is the magnitude of the fox’s average velocity if it grabs the carrion in its mouth just as it touches the ground? (Neglect air resistance; a = -g = -9.81 m/s .) I do not know how to do this but I have a list of equations dealing with Vertical Motion of A Projectile that Falls from Rest and also Horizontal Motion of a Projectile.

Answer 1

Here are the Equations. They are in the Word Doc.

Answer 2

Start by drawing a diagram of the question

Answer 3

Here is the diagram that I drew