A farm truck moves due north with a constant velocity of 12.00 m/s on a limitless horizontal stretch...

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A farm truck moves due north with a constant velocityof 12.00 m/s on a limitless horizontal stretch of road. Aboy riding on the back of the truck throws a can of soda upward andcatches the projectile at the same location on the truck bed,but 19.0 m farther down the road.

(a) In the frame of reference of the truck, at whatangle to the vertical does the boy throw the can?
 ° 

(b) What is the initial speed of the can relative tothe truck?
 m/s

(c) What is the shape of the can's trajectory as seenby the boy?

a straight line segment upward and then downwardasymmetric section of a parabola openingdownward    


(d) An observer on the ground watches the boy throwthe can and catch it. In this observer's ground frame of reference,describe the shape of the can's path and determine the initialvelocity of the can.

a symmetric section of a parabola openingdownward
or
a straight line segment upward and thendownward    

 m/s north at  ° above thehorizontal

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