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A hot air balloon is ascending straight up at a constant speed of 6.60 m/s. When the balloon is 11.0 m above the ground, a gun fires a pelle
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A hot air balloon is ascending straight up at a constant speed of 6.60 m/s. When the balloon is 11.0 m above the ground, a gun fires a pellet straight up from ground level with an initial speed of 30.0 m/s. Along the paths of the balloon and the pellet, there are two places where each of them has the same altitude at the same time. How far above ground level are these places
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2021-07-15T14:29:56+00:00
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Answer:
Explanation:
From the question we are told that
The constant speed of the balloon is
The height of the balloon is
The initial speed of the pellet is
Generally the height of the balloon at the point it is the same altitude with the pellet is mathematically represented as
Note: vt is the distance covered by the balloon before the pellet got to it
Generally the height of the pellet when it is the same height with the balloon is mathematically represented using kinematics equation
So
H = s
=>
=>
=>
using the quadratic formula to solve the above equation
From the quadratic formula calculation
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So the height of this two place above the ground is mathematically evaluated as
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