SOLUTION: Suppose one of Napoleon Bonaparte's cannons had a muzzle velocity of 60 m/s. At what angle should it have been aimed to (ignore air resistance) to strike a target 320 m away.

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Question 1129536: Suppose one of Napoleon Bonaparte's cannons had a muzzle velocity of 60 m/s. At what angle should it have been aimed to (ignore air resistance) to strike a target 320 m away.
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The range, , of a projectile with an initial velocity of fired at an angle of is given by:



where is the acceleration due to gravity.

Solving for :



Plug in your numbers and do the arithmetic. In the mks system,


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