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Tom, Spock, and McCoy stand on the top deck of a parking garageon planet Earth, 17 m above the ground below. For reasons that areunknown to us, they simultaneously throw pebbles off the deck, eachat the same speed of 8 m/s. Tom throws his up at an angle of 45degrees above the horizontal, Spock throws his perfectlyhorizontally, and McCoy, in a fit of pique, throws his straightdown toward the ground. How far does Tom's stone land from the edgeof the garage in meters?

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Let us assume the upwards direction as positive and thedownwards direction as negativeGravitational acceleration g 981 ms2Velocity at which Tom throws the stone V 8 msAngle at    See Answer
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