A student standing on a knoll throws a snowball horizontally toward a smokestack 15 meters away. The snowball hits the smokestack 0.65 second after being released. [Neglect air resistance.] At the instant the snowball is released, what is the horizontal component of its velocity

A student standing on a knoll throws a snowball horizontally toward a smokestack 15 meters away. The snowball hits the smokestack 0.65 second after being released. [Neglect air resistance.] At the instant the snowball is released, what is the horizontal component of its velocity

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A student standing on a knoll throws a snowball horizontally toward a smokestack 15 meters away. The snowball hits the smokestack 0.65 second after

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