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Can a body thrown horizontally from top of building travel in straight path?
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It will travel in a straight line as far as the x and z axises are concerned however in the Y axis the bodies path will be a inverted parabolic.
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If gravity did not affect the path of a horizontally thrown ball what would happen to the ball?
travel horizontally
How can a ball be thrown that it reaches the longest distance across vertically horizontally angled?
if the bal is thrown by making 45 degree angles. with the ground..it will travel maximum distance...
A football is thrown horizontally off the top of an apartment house that is 78.4 meters high the ball is thrown at a speed of 15 ms how far will the ball travel before hitting the streets below?
"60" or "sixty"
A ball thrown horizontally from a cliff and hits the ground 4 seconds later 40 meters from the base of the cliff How high was the cliff?
If it was thrown horizontally, it had an initial velocity of 10 meters/sec parallel to the ground. (It traveled 40 meters in 4 secs with no acceleration. x=vt) It also took 4 secs to travel vertically. It started with a vertical velocity of 0 m/s. Using x=v0 + (1/2) a t2 a = -g ( Acceleration due to gravity 9.8m/s2) x=0-(1/2)g*16 = -8 * 9.8 = -78.4 m It fell 78.4 meters before coming to a stop.
Why can't you travel in a straight line?
because the earth is round like a ball!
If gravity did not affect the path of a horizontally thrown ball what would happen to the ball?
travel horizontally
Does different speed of two objects effect the time it takes to reach the ground?
If thrown horizontal from same height the faster object will travel farther horizontally, but time to fall is the same. If thrown straight up, the faster object will take longer to fall
How can a ball be thrown that it reaches the longest distance across vertically horizontally angled?
if the bal is thrown by making 45 degree angles. with the ground..it will travel maximum distance...
A football is thrown horizontally off the top of an apartment house that is 78.4 meters high The ball is thrown at a speed of 15 m s How far will the ball travel before hitting the street below?
60 or Sixty
A football is thrown horizontally off the top of an apartment house that is 78.4 meters high the ball is thrown at a speed of 15 ms how far will the ball travel before hitting the streets below?
"60" or "sixty"
Will a bullet travel the same distance straight up that it would horizontally?
No. The horizontal distance depends on how close the the ground the gun is. From the firing position, a bullet dropped to the ground will strike the ground in the same time as a bullet shot horizontally forward.
What helps to show light rays travel in straight lines?
To remember this think of you are looking directly at a building a car crash happens behind this building. You know this from the sound produced that can travel in all directions past the building. You cannot see it because as light dose not bend under normal circumstances and will only travel in straight lines. Even if reflected using a combination of mirrors it still travels in straight lines.
If gravity did not affect the path of a horizontally thrown ball the ball would .?
It would travel in a straight line until air resistance brought it to a standstill. It would then hover at that point - in mid-air forever. If air resistance is also removed from the scenario an even stranger thing will happen. The ball will continue in a straight line forever. But, because of the curvature of the earth, the earth's surface will drop away so that the ball will actually fly off into space. One problem with this thought experiment is that the concept of a "straight" line depends on gravity.
In the absence of air resistance at what other angle will a thrown ball go the same distance as one thrown at an angle of 75 degrees?
The answer is 45 degrees. If given the same velocity, and thrown at say...10 degrees, to the ground, then the distance it would travel is the same as the distance it would travel if it were thrown 80 degrees. Complementary angles end up at the same distance horizontally.
Suppose you tie a rock to a string and spin it in a vertical plane In what direction will the rock move if the string breaks exactly when the rock has passed the lowest point and is in a horizontal?
It goes horizontally. The string is the only force that is keeping the rock from going in a straight line (the rock will go in a straight line in the absence of a force because of its "inertia") Thus, if the force is removed when the rock's instantaneous velocity is horizontal, it will continue to travel horizontally thereafter (in the absence of gravity, another force)..
Do photons travel in a straight line?
Yes, they do. But they sometimes travel a straight line through bent space.
If you have 3 balls on the top of a building and one is dropped. one is thrown downward. and one is thrown up and then goes downward Which has the fastest volocity when it hits the ground?
The thrown ball will (usually) have the highest velocity as the acceleration (resultant of force) used to throw it exceeds that of the other two balls. The ball thrown upward will have a higher downward velocity than the dropped ball even though their accelerations (due to gravity) are the same, as it has more time to travel downward. Although, If the ball thrown upward is thrown high enough, it may even travel faster than the ball thrown downward if the downward throw's force is not enough to beat the ball's terminal velocity (quite a bit of height would be required though).
