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12 years ago
I am doing a physics project and I need to calculate the initial velocity, initial x velocity, and initial y velocity. All the information I have is the maximum height, time, and angle of launch. Can you help me?
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12 years ago
If you have teh time and the max height (I assume time is the total time of flight), then you can estimate the inital speedin y by "working backwards".  Max height occurs 1/2 way thorugh the flight and it takes the object just as long to fall from max height as to rise to max height.  So treat this as a falling objecty and find the initial y speed from:

  vymax = vy0 -g(t/2)  where t/2 = 1/2 teh total trip time and vymax = 0 since the object stops moving in y at max height

  0 = vy0 - 1/2 gt --->  vy0 = 1/2 gt

Now you know that vy0 = v0 sin(q)  where v0 = initial velocity and q = launch angle  so

  v0 = vy0/sin(q)

Finally vx0 = v0*cos(q) = vy0*cos(q)/sin(q) = vy0*cot(q)
LES
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12 years ago
If the launch velocity is V at an angle w the
vertical component = Vsin(w)
horizontal component = Vcos(w)
When it reaches max height speed = 0 instantaneously.
H = Vsin(w)T - (1/2)gT^2  .............. [From s = ut + (1/2)at^2]
V = {H + (1/2)gT^2}/(Tsin(w))
So you now also have Vsin(w) and Vcos(w)
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12 years ago
Let's work out an example.

Your projectile attains a maximum height of 1,100 meters, and is launched at an angle of 34 degrees above the horizontal.

The total flight time is 29.966 seconds.
Sqrt(1100 / 9.8 * 2) * 2 = 29.966

The initial vertical velocity is 146.833 m/s.
Sqrt(1100 / 9.8 * 2) * 9.8 = 146.833

The initial horizontal velocity is 217.690 m/s.
146.833 / tan(34) = 217.690

The initial velocity is 262.581 m/s.
Sqrt(146.833^2 + 217.690^2) = 262.581
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