A car is parked on a cliff overlooking the ocean on an incline that makes an ang

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A car is parked on a cliff overlooking the ocean on an incline that makes an angle of 20.0° below the horizontal. The negligent driver leaves the car in neutral, and the emergency brakes are defective. The car rolls from rest down the incline with a constant acceleration of 3.21 m/s2 for a distance of 70.0 m to the edge of the cliff, which is 50.0 m above the ocean.
(a) Find the car's position relative to the base of the cliff when the car lands in the ocean.
1 m

(b) Find the length of time the car is in the air.
2 s

Explanation / Answer

Calculate the x and y velocity components. The speed is the magnitude of the resultant vector of these two. The angle can be calculated easily with the components of velocity since they are perpendicular to each other. That is the resultant velocity and these two components form a right-angled triangle. Or first calculate the launching speed of the car when it leaves the cliff.

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