You're not going wrong, it's just that the hose is too weak.
good, because i went over that twice, and i was getting worried.
]]>So in this situation, the maximum range of the water from the hose would be 144/9.8, which is around 14.7m, falling considerably short of the 21m target.
]]>A fireman has a hose and is standing on top of a 20 m high building. His hose shoots water at 12 m/s and he wishes to hit the top of another 20 m hig building 21 m away. what angle should he aim his hose at?
I calculated that in the x direction, the velocities are both 12cosθ, the acceleration is zero, distance is 21.0 and te time is unknown. In the y direction, te initial velocity is 12sinθ and the final is -12sinθ, the acceleration is -9.8, the distance is zero, and the time is also unknown.
if you take the angle to be from the x axis counter clockwise
you require that s_x = 21m. so you can calculate t for theta by
then you also require that for this value of theta, s_y will be 0, since buildings are at same height, i.e.
but again, its outside of the range?
anyone tell me where im going wrong?
]]>because it would result in taking the inverse sine of a number round about the size of 14 which is outside its range
]]>I calculated that in the x direction, the velocities are both 12cosθ, the acceleration is zero, distance is 21.0 and te time is unknown. In the y direction, te initial velocity is 12sinθ and the final is -12sinθ, the acceleration is -9.8, the distance is zero, and the time is also unknown.
I then set up a system:
x: t=21/12cosθ
y: t=24sinθ/9.8
0=21/12cosθ-24sinθ/9.8
(21/12)secθ=(24/9.8)sinθ
(21/12)/(24/9.8)secθ=sinθ
sinθ/secθ=205.8/288
sinθcosθ=205.8/288
I'm stuck now...