Use the following fact derived from Newton's Laws: An object released at an angle θ with initial velocity v ft/s travels a horizontal distance

A player located 18.1 ft from the basket launches a successful jump shot from a height of 10 ft (level with the rim of the basket), at an angle θ = 34o and initial velocity v = 25 ft/s.)
(a) Show that Δs ‰ˆ 0.255Δθ ft for a small change of Δθ.
(b) Is it likely that the shot would have been successful if the angle had been off by 2o?

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sịu2 sin 2θ ft (Figure 10) FIGURE 10 Trajectory of an object released at an angle θ