Where is the shadow?
A small ball is thrown from foot of a wall with the minimum possible velocity to hit a bulb B on the ground a distance away from the wall. Find expression for height of shadow of the ball on the wall as a function of time . Acceleration due to gravity is .
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1 solution
Use similarity in the triangles formed between the axii and the projectile's trajectory at that point.