Horizontal Projectile Motion C4U (2)

The longest stuffed toy ever manufactured is a 420 m snake made by Norwegian children. If a projectile is thrown horizontally from a height half as long as the snake and the projectile’s horizontal displacement is as long as the snake. What would be the projectile’s initial velocity?

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The world’s largest flowerpot is 1.95 m high. If you were to jump horizontally from the top edge of this flowerpot at a speed of 3.0 m/s, what would your landing velocity be?

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A workers lunch box is accidentally kicked off a steel beam on a building under construction. Suppose the initial horizontal speed is 1.50 m/s. How far does the lunch pail fall after it travels 3.50 m horizontally?

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A squirrel on a limb near the top of a tree loses its grip on a nut, so that the nut slips away horizontally at a speed of 10.0 cm/s. If the nut lands at a horizontal distance of 18.6 cm, how high above the ground is the squirrel?

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Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States set the women’s world record for the 200m by running with an average speed of 9.37 m/s. Suppose Griffith-Joyner wants to jump over a river. She runs horizontally from the river’s higher bank at 9.37 m/s and lands on the edge of the opposite bank. If the difference in height between the two banks is 2.00 m, how wide is the river?

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