Projectile. A cannonball is catapulted toward a castle. The cannonball’s velocity when it leaves the catapult is 40 m/s at an angle of 370 with respect with the horizontal and the cannonball is 7.0 m above the ground at that time. (a) What is the maximum height above the ground reached by the cannonball? (b) Assuming the cannonball makes it over the castle walls and lands back down on the ground, at what horizontal distance from its release point will it land? (c) What are the x and y components of cannonball’s ve

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Projectile. A cannonball is catapulted toward a castle. The cannonball’s velocity when it leaves the catapult is 40 m/s at an angle of 370 with respect with the horizontal and the cannonball is 7.0 m above the ground at that time.

(a) What is the maximum height above the ground reached by the cannonball?

(b) Assuming the cannonball makes it over the castle walls and lands back down on the ground, at what horizontal distance from its release point will it land?

(c) What are the and components of cannonball’s velocity just before it lands? The y-axis points up.

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