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In Exercises 39 and 40, use the following fact derived from Newton's Laws: An object released at an angle $\theta$ with initial velocity $v$ fu/s travels a horizontal distance $$ s=\frac{1}{32} v^2 \sin 2 \theta \mathrm{ft} \text { (Figure 10) } $$ A player located 18.1 ft from the basket launches a successful jump shot from a height of 10 ft (level with the rim of the basket), at an angle $\theta=34^{\circ}$ and initial velocity $v=25 \mathrm{ft} / \mathrm{s}$.) (a) Show that $\Delta s \approx 0.255 \Delta \theta$ ft for a small change of $\Delta \theta$. (b) Is it likely that the shot would have been successful if the angle had been off by $2^{\circ}$ ? ( figure can't copy )

   In Exercises 39 and 40, use the following fact derived from Newton's Laws: An object released at an angle $\theta$ with initial velocity $v$ fu/s travels a horizontal distance
$$
s=\frac{1}{32} v^2 \sin 2 \theta \mathrm{ft} \text { (Figure 10) }
$$
A player located 18.1 ft from the basket launches a successful jump shot from a height of 10 ft (level with the rim of the basket), at an angle $\theta=34^{\circ}$ and initial velocity $v=25 \mathrm{ft} / \mathrm{s}$.)
(a) Show that $\Delta s \approx 0.255 \Delta \theta$ ft for a small change of $\Delta \theta$.
(b) Is it likely that the shot would have been successful if the angle had been off by $2^{\circ}$ ?
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In Exercises 39 and 40, use the following fact derived from Newton's Laws: An object released at an angle $\theta$ with initial velocity $v$ fu/s travels a horizontal distance $$ s=\frac{1}{32} v^2 \sin 2 \theta \mathrm{ft} \text { (Figure 10) } $$ A player located 18.1 ft from the basket launches a successful jump shot from a height of 10 ft (level with the rim of the basket), at an angle $\theta=34^{\circ}$ and initial velocity $v=25 \mathrm{ft} / \mathrm{s}$.) (a) Show that $\Delta s \approx 0.255 \Delta \theta$ ft for a small change of $\Delta \theta$. (b) Is it likely that the shot would have been successful if the angle had been off by $2^{\circ}$ ? ( figure can't copy )
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00:01 So we're going to start by graphing this function.
00:04 We know that our function is 1 over 32 times v squared equals or not equals times the sign of 2 theta.
00:23 2 theta.
00:27 And we know that theta is going to be 34 degrees.
00:33 So this can be the sign of 68.
00:36 And we want to make sure that this is in degrees and not radians, so we'll make sure we do that.
00:42 And then we also know that the velocity v is 25.
00:47 So that means we'll have 25 times 25.
00:55 625.
00:57 And now that we have this, we'll have 625 over 32 times sign of this...
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