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Problem Set/Take Home Quiz (May 9, 2015)

1. A baseball is thrown at an angle of 30 with the horizontal and landed at the top edge of a building 32.8 ft
high. If the building is 164 ft away, determine the initial velocity in fps.
2. A projectile is fired from the top of a cliff, 280 ft high, with a velocity of 1200 ft/s directed 50 to the
horizontal. Find the range in kilometers on the horizontal plane through the base of the cliff.
3. A projectile is fired up the inclined plane at an initial velocity of 15 m/s. The plane is making an angle of
30 from the horizontal. If the projectile was fired at 30 from the incline, compute the maximum height
measured perpendicular to the incline that is reached by the projectile. Neglect air resistance.
4. A hunter aimed his rifle at a target board located 60 meters away. How far below the target will the bullet
strike the board if the speed of the bullet is 550 m/s? Express final answer in cm.
5. A projectile is launched upward at an initial slope of 4 vertical to 3 horizontal and hits the ground at a point
2 m lower than that of the origin. The maximum height of its flight is attained 8 m horizontally away from
the origin. (a) What is the value of the initial velocity? (b) What is the maximum height reached from the
origin? (c) What is the total horizontal distance travelled by the projectile?
6. A projectile is fired at the top of a 150 m building at an angle 25 with the horizontal. If its muzzle velocity
is 400 m/s, how long will it take for it to reach the ground?
7. The muzzle velocity of a projectile is 1500 fps and the distance of the target is 10 miles. What must be the
angle of elevation of the gun?
8. Water is sprayed at an angle of 90 from the slope at 20 m/s. Determine the range R.

9. Determine the speed at which the basketball at A must be thrown at the angle of 30 so that it makes it to the
basket at B.

10. The baseball player A hits the baseball at an initial velocity of

A =40

ft/s and

A =

60 from the

horizontal when the ball is directly overhead of player B he begins to run under it. Determine the constant
speed at which B must run and the distance d in order to make the catch at the same elevation at which the
ball was hit.

11. Using a constant angular acceleration starting from rest, a hydraulic turbine is brought to its normal
operating speed of 180 rpm in 6 minutes. How many complete revolutions did the turbine make in coming
to normal speed?
12. A car is traveling along a circular curve that has a radius of 50 m. If its speed is 16 m/s and is increasing
uniformly at 8 m/s2, determine the magnitude of its acceleration at this instant.
13. Determine the maximum constant speed a race car can have if the acceleration of the car cannot exceed 7.5
m/s2 while rounding a track having a radius of curvature of 200 m.
14. A particle is moving along a circular path having a radius of 4 in. such that its position as a function of time
is given by =cos 2t , where is in radians and t is in seconds. Determine the magnitude of the
acceleration of the particle when =30 .
15. When

=15 , the car has a speed of 50 m/s which is increasing at 6 m/s 2. Determine the angular

velocity of the camera tracking the car at this instant.