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A cannonball is shot off a cliff with a speed of 77.02 m/s and an angle of 34 degrees above the horizontal. What is the horizontal components of the initial velocity?
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A cannonball is shot off a cliff with a speed of 77.02 m/s and an angle of 34 degrees above the horizontal. What is the horizontal components of the initial velocity?

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The horizontal component would be

(77.02 m/s) cos(34°) ≈ 63.85 m/s

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