A projectile is fired from ground level at an angle of with respect to the horizontal. Let be the horizontal distance from the initial firing point to the landing point. Let be the total time the projectile stays in the air.
What value of (in degrees) maximizes the product of and ?
Note: Assume an ambient downward gravitational field
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