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Problem 4.14 of Serway & Jewett: A firefighter, a distance d from a burning building, directs a stream of water from a fire hose at angle above the horizontal. If the initial speed of the stream is , at what height h does the water strike the building?
Dear sachin,
This is the projectile motion. The equation which describe the motion along horizontal axis x is the following
where is the x-component of initial velocity.
Along axis y we have motion with constant acceleration:
In these equations at the initial moment of time the water has zero coordinate.
What do we know about the final point: we know only the x-coordinate of the final point – it is x=d. We can substitute this coordinate in the first equation (which describe the motion along axis x):
From this equation we can find the traveled time:
Then we substitute this time into the equation which describe the y-coordinate of the water:
This expression gives as the height where the water strikes the building.
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