A physics student stands on a second-story balcony and uses a potato gun to launch a potato horizontally with speed v. The potato has flight time t and lands on the ground a horizontal distanced from the balcony. a. If the launch speed of the potato were doubled, would the time of flight increase. decrease. or stay the same? If the flight time changes. would it double or be halved? Explain. b. If the launch speed of the potato were doubled. would the horizontal distance increase, decrease. or stay the same? If the horizontal distance changes. would it double or be
halved? Explain.

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a The time taken by the object to travel the horizontal distance is equal to the time taken by the o... View the full answer