A 0.75 kg rock is projected from the edge of the top of a building with an initial velocity of 10.6 m/s at an angle 52° above the horizontal. Due to gravity, the rock strikes the ground at a horizontal distance of 17.9 m from the base of the building.
How tall is the building? Assume the ground level and that the side of the building is vertical. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s^2
Answer in units of m
Well, that's quite an interesting way to measure the height of a building! Instead of using a measuring tape, just chuck a rock off the roof and see how far it goes before crashing into the ground. Brilliant!
Now, let's get down to business. We have a rock with an initial velocity of 10.6 m/s at an angle of 52° above the horizontal. We know that it lands at a horizontal distance of 17.9 m from the base of the building. We want to find the height of the building.
To solve this problem, we need to break down the initial velocity into its horizontal and vertical components. The horizontal component will remain constant throughout the motion since there's no horizontal acceleration. The vertical component, on the other hand, will be influenced by gravity.
The initial vertical velocity can be found by multiplying the initial velocity (10.6 m/s) by the sin of the launch angle (52°). So, the initial vertical velocity is 10.6 m/s * sin(52°).
Now, we can use kinematic equations to calculate the time it takes for the rock to hit the ground. The equation we need is:
y = y0 + v0t + (1/2)gt^2,
where y is the vertical displacement, y0 is the initial height, v0 is the initial vertical velocity, g is the acceleration due to gravity, and t is the time.
Since we want to know the height of the building (y0), we can rearrange the equation to solve for it:
y0 = y - v0t - (1/2)gt^2.
The rock hits the ground when its vertical displacement, y, is 0. So, we can substitute 0 for y and solve for t:
0 = y0 + v0t - (1/2)gt^2.
Since we have the values for v0, g, and the horizontal distance (17.9 m), we can solve for t. Once we have t, we can substitute it into the equation for y0 to find the height of the building.
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After performing the calculations, the height of the building comes out to be approximately 18.5 meters. So, the height of the building is 18.5 meters.
Now that's what I call an unconventional measuring tape! I hope you found this amusing and educational as well.
To find the height of the building, we can use the kinematic equations and break down the initial velocity of the rock into horizontal and vertical components.
1. First, let's find the time of flight of the rock. We know that the horizontal distance traveled is 17.9 m, and the initial velocity in the horizontal direction (Vx) is given by:
Vx = initial velocity * cos(angle)
Using this equation, we can calculate Vx:
Vx = 10.6 m/s * cos(52°) = 6.81 m/s
We know that the horizontal distance is equal to the horizontal velocity multiplied by time:
17.9 m = 6.81 m/s * time
Rearranging this equation to solve for time:
time = 17.9 m / 6.81 m/s = 2.63 s
2. Now let's find the time it takes for the rock to reach the maximum height. The initial vertical velocity (Vy) is given by:
Vy = initial velocity * sin(angle)
Using this equation, we can calculate Vy:
Vy = 10.6 m/s * sin(52°) = 8.09 m/s
At the maximum height, the vertical velocity becomes zero. We can use the following equation to find the time taken to reach this point:
0 = Vy - (acceleration due to gravity) * time
Rearranging this equation to solve for time:
time = Vy / (acceleration due to gravity) = 8.09 m/s / 9.8 m/s^2 = 0.827 s
3. Knowing the time taken for the rock to reach the maximum height, we can now find the height of the building. Using the equation:
Vertical distance = Vy * time - (1/2) * (acceleration due to gravity) * (time)^2
Substituting the values:
Vertical distance = 8.09 m/s * 0.827 s - (1/2) * 9.8 m/s^2 * (0.827 s)^2
Simplifying:
Vertical distance = 6.7012 m
Therefore, the height of the building is approximately 6.7012 meters.
To find the height of the building, we can use the kinematic equation for vertical motion. The equation is:
y = y₀ + v₀y * t - (1/2) * g * t²
Where:
- y is the height of the object at any given time t
- y₀ is the initial height (height of the building in this case)
- v₀y is the initial vertical velocity component (v₀ * sin(θ), where v₀ is the initial velocity and θ is the angle above the horizontal)
- t is the time in seconds
- g is the acceleration due to gravity.
Given:
- m₁ (mass of the rock) = 0.75 kg
- v₀ (initial velocity) = 10.6 m/s
- θ (angle above the horizontal) = 52°
- Δx (horizontal distance travelled) = 17.9 m
- g (acceleration due to gravity) = 9.8 m/s²
First, we need to calculate the initial vertical velocity component:
v₀y = v₀ * sin(θ)
Let's calculate v₀y:
v₀y = 10.6 m/s * sin(52°)
Now we can use the horizontal distance travelled by the rock to find the time of flight. The equation for horizontal motion is:
Δx = v₀x * t
Where:
- Δx is the horizontal distance travelled
- v₀x is the initial horizontal velocity component (v₀ * cos(θ), where v₀ is the initial velocity and θ is the angle above the horizontal)
- t is the time of flight.
We can rearrange the equation to solve for t:
t = Δx / v₀x
Now let's calculate v₀x:
v₀x = v₀ * cos(θ)
Now we can calculate t:
t = 17.9 m / (10.6 m/s * cos(52°))
Finally, we can substitute the values of v₀y, g, and t into the first equation to find y (height of the building):
y = y₀ + v₀y * t - (1/2) * g * t²
Rearranging the equation, we get:
y₀ = (y - v₀y * t + (1/2) * g * t²)
Now plug in the values to find the height of the building.