Question

An archer fish spies a meal of a grasshopper sitting on a long stalk of grass at the edge of the pond in which he is swimming. If the fish is to successfully spit at and strike the grasshopper, which is 0.27 m away horizontally and 0.605 m above his mouth, what is the minimum speed at which the archer fish must spit? What angle above the horizontal must he spit?

|v_i| = ____ m/s

θ_i =______ ° above the horizontal

Answer 1