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jeran921
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Hey
This problem has been stumping me for awhile and I just don't seem able to get it
A space shuttle lands ona distant planet where the gravitiational acceleration is 2.0 (We don't know the local units of length and timem but they are consistent throughout this problem.) The shuttle coasts alond a level, frictionless plane with a speed of 6.0. It then coasts up a frictionless ram of height 5.0 and angle 30 degrees. After a brief ballistic flight, it lands a distance S from the ramp. Solve for S in local units of length. Assume the shuttle is small compared to the local length unit and that all atmospheric effects are negligible.
I used the equation
Eg=mgy
Ek=0.5mv^2
first befor it hits the ramp
mv^2/2 = 18m (m is not meters)
on the ramp mgh would be introduced so
mgh+mv^2=?
And this is where I got lost
This problem has been stumping me for awhile and I just don't seem able to get it
Homework Statement
A space shuttle lands ona distant planet where the gravitiational acceleration is 2.0 (We don't know the local units of length and timem but they are consistent throughout this problem.) The shuttle coasts alond a level, frictionless plane with a speed of 6.0. It then coasts up a frictionless ram of height 5.0 and angle 30 degrees. After a brief ballistic flight, it lands a distance S from the ramp. Solve for S in local units of length. Assume the shuttle is small compared to the local length unit and that all atmospheric effects are negligible.
Homework Equations
I used the equation
Eg=mgy
Ek=0.5mv^2
The Attempt at a Solution
first befor it hits the ramp
mv^2/2 = 18m (m is not meters)
on the ramp mgh would be introduced so
mgh+mv^2=?
And this is where I got lost