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You're a consulting engineer specializing in athletic facilities, and you’ve been asked to help design the Olympic ski jump pictured in Fig. 3.27. Skiers will leave the jump at 28 m/s and 9.5° below the horizontal, and land 55 m horizontally from the end of the jump. Your job is to specify the slope of the ground so skiers’ trajectories make an angle of only 3.0° with the ground on landing, ensuring their safety. What slope do you specify?
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