A pumpkin of mass 5 kg shot out of a student-made cannon under air pressure at an

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A pumpkin of mass 5 kg shot out of a student-made cannon under air pressure at an elevation angle of 45o fell at a distance of 142 m from the cannon. The students used light beams and photocells to measure the initial velocity of 54m/s. If the air resistive force was F = – kmv, what was the value of k?
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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