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I am suppose to find the height and distance traveled by a ball thrown at angle A and a speed v given by:
h(t)=v*t*sin(A)-(1/2)*g*t^2
x(t)=v*t*cos(A)
I am given:
gravity=g=9.81m/s^2
v=10m/s
and the angle A = 35
I know I just plug those into the equations to solve for h(t) and x(t) but I am not given the time "t" so how am I suppose to get t?
I am suppose to compute how high the ball goes, how far it will go, and how long it will take to hit the ground.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Part b of the problem asks for "Use the values of v and A given in part a to plot the ball's trajectory; that is, plot h versus x for positive values of h"
How can I do this is we just solved for the exact value of h and x?, we need multiple values of h and x to plot.
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bym
on 18 Feb 2012
What do you know about the ball's velocity at the maximum height? What do you know about the ball's height at the time when it hits the ground?
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Krishnendu Mukherjee
on 18 Feb 2012
make that two functions in function builder.give the time input as a ramp function,f(t)=t;[may t=0:10] add a scope.find the answer
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Krishnendu Mukherjee
on 19 Feb 2012
why multiple answer?if u would give a ramp as input.then for different values the different answer would shown as continous signal.you could see.for which value of t maxima is arrising.
why unnecessarily u will make a complicated program?thats why i hv tld that
Andrei Bobrov
on 18 Feb 2012
syms t
A = 35;
g = 9.81;
v = 10;
h = v*t*sind(A)-(1/2)*g*t^2;
x = v*t*cosd(A);
t_hmax = solve(diff(h,t),t);
hmax = vpa(subs(h,t,t_hmax),5)
x_all = vpa(2*subs(x,t,t_hmax),5)
ADD
xf = matlabFunction(x);
hf = matlabFunction(h);
t2 = linspace(0,2*double(t_hmax),100);
plot(xf(t2),hf(t2))
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