Bert is standing on a ladder picking apples in his grandfather’s orchard. As he pulls each apple off the tree, he tosses it into a basket that sits on the ground 2.45 m below at a horizontal distance of 1.4 m from Bert. How fast must Bert throw the apples (horizontally) in order for them to land in the basket?

(a)  

Billy-Joe stands on the High Street Bridge in Hamilton Ohio kicking stones into the water below. a) If Billy-Joe kicks a stone with a horizontal velocity of 3.50 m/s, and it lands in the water a horizontal distance of 3.15 m from where Billy-Joe is standing, what is the height of the bridge?

(a)  

Tad drops a cherry pit out the car window 0.8 m above the ground while traveling down the road at 18 m/s. How far, horizontally, from the initial dropping point will the pit hit the ground?

(a)  

While skiing, Ellen encounters an unexpected icy bump, which she leaves horizontally at 12 m/s. How far out, horizontally, from her starting point will Ellen land if she drops a distance of 7.2 m in the fall?

(a)  

The Essex county sheriff is trying to determine the speed of a car that slid off a small bridge on a snowy New England night and landed in a snow pile 4.05 m below the level of the road. The tire tracks in the snow show that the car landed 27 m measured horizontally from the bridge. How fast was the car going when it left the road?

(a)  

The movie The Gods Must Be Crazy begins with a pilot dropping a bottle out of an airplane. It is recovered by a surprised native below, who thinks it is a message from the gods. If the plane from which the bottle was dropped was flying at an altitude of 500 m, and the bottle lands 400 m horizontally from the initial dropping point, how fast was the plane flying when the bottle was released?

(a)  

A plane is moving horizontally at a constant speed of 60 m/s at an altitude of 245 m. The pilot accidentally drop a bag of flour out the window. How far horizontally from the dropping point would be the landing?

(a)