Legend has it that, in 1971, two college students at Yale University used a large slingshot (made with 8 2-metre lengths of surgical rubber) to launch a loaf of frozen bread over their college master?s house. The approximate trajectory of the loaf is shown below.

Write a Python program to compute the trajectory assuming that

• There is no wind.
• The drag coefficient of the loaf of bread is the same as a similarly-sized sports ball.
• The bread leaves the slingshot at a height of 1.8 meters above the ground.

Then use your program to determine the optimum firing angle, with respect to the horizontal, and the minimum launch velocity to just clear the master?s house.

Transcribed Image Text:

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