FA1 · Q3 · A.1 Kinematics · projectile motion with a launch angle
Q3: a ball thrown at an angle towards a wall
Tangent and downward arrows on a curved path, splitting a launch velocity into components, and finding the height at which the ball hits the wall.
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Question 1 threw the ball sideways. Here it is thrown up and forward. The same two-axis thinking works, with one extra step: splitting the launch velocity into components.
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