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Question

A cannon with a muzzle velocity of 500. meters per second fires a cannonball at an angle of 30.° above the horizontal. What is the vertical component of the cannonball's velocity as it leaves the cannon?

Answer 1

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500sin(30º) = 250m/s

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Answer 2

v=500 sin(30)=500*.5=   250m/s           .

Answer 3

The components are V sin(angle) and V cos(angle). I can't automatically remember which is horizontal and which is vertical, so I have to think about it.  If the angle was zero, then the components would be 0 vertical, and V horizontal. So then, which one of these is equal to zero: V sin(0) and V cos(0)?