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Homework Statement
7. During World War I, the German army bombarded Paris
with a huge gun referred to, by the Allied Forces, as “Big
Bertha.” Assume that Big Bertha fired shells with an initial
velocity of 1.1 x 10^3 m/s [45° above the horizontal].
(a) How long was each shell airborne, if the launch point was the same as the landing point
Homework Equations
dy = v1xT+1/2ax X t^2
The Attempt at a Solution
v1 = 1.1 x 10^3
a= -9.81
t = ?