Tuesday, January 10, 2012

How do you do this?? 10 points.?

As a concerned citizen, you have volunteered to serve on a committee investigating injuries to Junior High School students participating in sports programs. Currently your committee is investigating the high incidence of ankle injuries on the basketball team. You are watching the team practice, looking for activities which can result in large horizontal forces on the ankle. Observing the team practice jump shots gives you an idea, so you try a small calculation. A 34-kg student jumps 1.2 meters straight up and shoots the 0.80-kg basketball at his highest point. From the trajectory of the basketball, you deduce that the ball left his hand at 30o from the horizontal at 25 m/s. What is his horizontal speed when he hits the ground?

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