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A person standing on the top of the 171 ft high has to throw a packet to his friend standing on the ground 228 ft horizontally away . If he throws the packet directly aiming at the friend with a speed 15. Ft/ s , how short will the packet fall.   
Asked by nehagoyalarmy | 16 Jun, 2018, 11:24: AM
answered-by-expert Expert Answer
 
As shown in figure, let a person A is at a height 171 feet from ground level.
Person A throwing a packet to another person B, who is 228 feet horizontally away.
The straight line distance from A to B is begin mathsize 12px style square root of 171 squared plus 228 squared end root space equals space 285 space end stylefeet.
Packet is thrown along the direction AB with speed 15 ft/s. If we resolve this speed into vertical and horizontal components,
we get vertical component as 9 ft/s ( 15 sinθ = 15×171/285 = 9 ft/s) and horizontal component as 12 ft/s ( 15 cosθ = 15×228/285 = 12 ft/s )
 
The time to reach the ground for the packet is decided by gravity.
Hence we will find the time taken to reach the ground using vertical component.
 
we need to use the equation of motion, " S = ut+(1/2)gt2 "
 
171 = 9×t+(1/2)×9.8×3.281×t2 = 9×t+16.08×t ...................(1)
 
(acceleration due to gravity is ft/s2. 1 m = 3.281 ft)
 
solving the quadratic equation (1) for t, we get t = 3 s.
 
Hence horizontal distance travelled by the packet = 12×3 = 36 ft.
 
Packet will fall at a distance 36 ft from O, short of  192 ft  to B ( 228-36 = 192 ft )
 
Answered by Thiyagarajan K | 16 Jun, 2018, 03:28: PM
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