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One strategy in a snowball fight is to throw a snowball at a high angle over level ground. While your opponent is watching this first snowball, you throw a second snowball at a low angle and time it to arrive at the same time as the first. Assume both snowballs are thrown with the same initial speed 20.5 m/s. The first snowball is thrown at an angle of 68◦ above the horizontal. At what angle should you throw the second snowball to make it hit the same point as the first? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s 2 . Answer in units of ◦ .
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