In a simulation of a pool game, the pool table is a rectangle with a horizontal width of 15 units and a vertical length of 30 units.
The left bottom corner of this rectangle is at the origin of an reference frame with standard orientation. You have two billiard balls of radius 1 unit, the first is the cue ball (drawn in light green) and is placed at , the second is the target ball and is placed at . You want to shoot the cue ball (green) in a certain direction, such that it collides with the target ball, causing it to move to the target point which, in this problem, is the far right corner, whose coordinates are . Find the angle that the direction of your shot of the cue ball makes with the positive -axis, in radians , and report .
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