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Hi Jessi. This is a question of projectile motion. There are a couple of very important equations of projectile motion:
Where y is the vertical location, x is the horizontal location, x0, y0 are the initial location, v0 is the initial velocity, t is the time since launch, θ is the angle between the initial trajectory and the ground and g is the constant acceleration due to gravity: 9.8 m/s2. You can use the first equation for each value of θ to find t for each situation: Once you have t for each angle, you can use it in the second equation, which describes the horizontal movement, to find where the ball strikes the ground. I think you are meant to ignore special aerodynamic properties of golf balls, air resistance and how far it bounces! Cheers, | ||||||||||||
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