Re: A physics question for the web

If fired horizontally the ball would hit the ground in one second. It
would travel 1000 feet horizontally. A falling body (on Earth) drops
32 feet per second per second regardless of it's sideways velocity.
Fired from a 64 foot hill it would take 2 seconds to fall and would
travel 2000 feet . This all assumes that the ground is level for at
least 1000 feet in the direction the ball is traveling.


On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:56:14 GMT, "David Moffitt"
<moffitcl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



You place a cannon on a hill top with an elevation of 32 feet off of the
ground below. It fires
a cannon ball perfectly horizontal at 1,000 feet per second and the
cannon ball has no drag.

(1) How far will the cannon ball go before it hits the ground?
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(2) How long will it take for the cannon ball to hit the ground?
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