Question

The shot put is a track and field event in which athletes throw a heavy ball – the shot – as far as possible. The world record was set in 1990 by Randy Barnes, who threw the shot a distance of 23.12 m. Athletes who use the “glide” technique push the shot in a reasonably straight line, accelerating it from rest over a distance of 2.00 m. If Barnes was able to apply an acceleration of 53.0 m/s 2 over this distance, from how high above the ground did he release the shot during his world record throw if the shot was thrown at an angle of 37.0° above the horizontal? (Note: Barnes is roughly 1.95 m tall.)

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