One Piece in Physics?

Buggy , the Star Clown has special type of cannon ball called " Buggy Ball " which has the same range R on a horizontal plane for two angles of projection. If h 1 , h 2 h_1,h_2 are the greatest heights attained by the buggy ball in the two paths for the above two angles of projections , What is the value of the expression :

R h 1 h 2 \dfrac{R}{\sqrt{h_1h_2}}


The answer is 4.

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1 solution

Nihar Mahajan
Jun 4, 2015

By standard projectile formulae , if the angles of projection are θ 1 , θ 2 \theta_1,\theta_2 thrown with velocity v v we have:

R = v 2 sin 2 θ 1 g = v 2 sin 2 θ 2 g h 1 = v 2 sin 2 θ 1 2 g h 2 = v 2 sin 2 θ 2 2 g R=\dfrac{v^2\sin 2\theta_1}{g}=\dfrac{v^2\sin 2\theta_2}{g} \\ h_1 = \dfrac{v^2\sin^2\theta_1}{2g} \\ h_2=\dfrac{v^2\sin^2\theta_2}{2g}

Let R h 1 h 2 = λ \dfrac{R}{\sqrt{h_1h_2}} = \lambda

So we have :

λ 2 = ( v 2 sin 2 θ 1 g ) ( v 2 sin 2 θ 2 g ) ( v 2 sin 2 θ 1 2 g ) ( v 2 sin 2 θ 2 2 g ) λ 2 = 4 × sin 2 θ 1 . sin 2 θ 2 sin 2 θ 1 sin 2 θ 2 λ = 4 × 2 × sin θ 1 . cos θ 1 × 2. sin θ 2 . cos θ 2 sin 2 θ 1 sin 2 θ 2 λ 2 = 8 sin θ 1 sin θ 2 × 2 sin θ 2 sin θ 1 sin 2 θ 1 sin 2 θ 2 λ 2 = 16 λ = 4 \lambda^2=\dfrac{\left(\dfrac{v^2\sin 2\theta_1}{g}\right)\left(\dfrac{v^2\sin 2\theta_2}{g}\right)}{\left(\dfrac{v^2\sin^2\theta_1}{2g}\right)\left(\dfrac{v^2\sin^2\theta_2}{2g}\right)} \\ \Rightarrow \lambda^2=\dfrac{4 \times \sin 2\theta_1 . \sin 2\theta_2}{\sin^2\theta_1\sin^2\theta_2} \\ \lambda=\dfrac{4 \times 2\times \sin \theta_1 .\cos \theta_1 \times 2 .\sin \theta_2 . \cos \theta_2}{\sin^2\theta_1\sin^2\theta_2} \\ \Rightarrow\lambda^2 = \dfrac{8\sin\theta_1\sin\theta_2 \times 2\sin\theta_2\sin\theta_1}{\sin^2\theta_1\sin^2\theta_2} \\ \Rightarrow \lambda^2=16 \\ \Rightarrow \boxed{\lambda= 4}

No more of this non-sense subject until college starts !

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Well , you are saying that Einstein is non-sense? :(

Nihar Mahajan - 6 years ago

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Umm , well .. he did make life tough for me ,but I'm saying I won't be studying or solving questions from Physics .

I'll just be doing QM and Stat. Mech , that's the only part of Physics that I actually like :D

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@A Former Brilliant Member I will hit you so hard that your name would become :

Roopesh M Azhaghu ;) \huge\text{Roopesh M Azhaghu ;)}

Note: You must not cry afterwards. Okay?

Nihar Mahajan - 6 years ago

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@Nihar Mahajan Ya, I can't see the insult of my idol or my favourite subject!

Swapnil Das - 6 years ago

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@Swapnil Das I never brought sir Einstein's name into the picture .In fact I told that I like QM , so how can I hate him ??

It's all Nihar's doing . It looks like he hates sir Einstein .

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@A Former Brilliant Member I commented "Well , you are saying that Einstein is non-sense? :( " . Did you see the "frown face" i.e " :( " ? Doesn't that mean I am unhappy that you are saying that Einstein is non-sense .

Then how can you comment : " It looks like he hates sir Einstein ." ? Doesn't that mean you are non - sense? @Azhaghu Roopesh M ;) :P

Nihar Mahajan - 6 years ago

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@Nihar Mahajan What doesn't make sense is that you didn't read my comment properly , I had never mentioned sir Einstein , and all of a sudden you bring about him into the convo .

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@A Former Brilliant Member OK, please don't make this conversation a fight!

Swapnil Das - 6 years ago

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@Swapnil Das Swapnil , this is neither a fight nor a conversation , its just time pass :P

Nihar Mahajan - 6 years ago

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@Nihar Mahajan Oh! Nice then. i thought this conversation was then taking a serious mood! :P

Swapnil Das - 6 years ago

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