An archer wants to determine the speed atwhich her new bow can fire an arrow. Sh

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An archer wants to determine the speed atwhich her new bow can fire an arrow. She paces off a distanced from her target and fires her arrow horizontally. Shedetermines that she launched it at a height h higher thanwhere it strikes the target. She ignores air resistance. Choose anexpression in terms of h, d and g thatshe can use to determine the initial speed of her arrow.
(a) dgh (b) dhg (c) d-gh An archer wants to determine the speed atwhich her new bow can fire an arrow. She paces off a distanced from her target and fires her arrow horizontally. Shedetermines that she launched it at a height h higher thanwhere it strikes the target. She ignores air resistance. Choose anexpression in terms of h, d and g thatshe can use to determine the initial speed of her arrow.
(a) dgh (b) dhg (c) d-gh (a) dgh (b) dhg (c) d-gh An archer wants to determine the speed atwhich her new bow can fire an arrow. She paces off a distanced from her target and fires her arrow horizontally. Shedetermines that she launched it at a height h higher thanwhere it strikes the target. She ignores air resistance. Choose anexpression in terms of h, d and g thatshe can use to determine the initial speed of her arrow.
(a) dgh (b) dhg (c) d-gh

Explanation / Answer

from dynamics basics we know: s = vt s = 1/2 at2 to figure out the horizontal speed, we fill in thehorizontal-coordinate in the first function and thevertical-coordinate in the second and rewrite: v = d/t t = 2h/g to calculate the speed, we substitute 't' in the firstfunction for the second, v = d/2h/g = d * 1 / 2h/g =dg/2h which is answer (a) to figure out the horizontal speed, we fill in thehorizontal-coordinate in the first function and thevertical-coordinate in the second and rewrite: v = d/t t = 2h/g to calculate the speed, we substitute 't' in the firstfunction for the second, v = d/2h/g = d * 1 / 2h/g =dg/2h which is answer (a)

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