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Re: Calculating Angle to fire at
I found a nice tutorial for projectile motion here:

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Clas...ors/U3L2f.html

Using the equation in the example involving this question, you can find some nice info:

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A football is kicked with an initial velocity of 25 m/s at an angle of 45-degrees with the horizontal. Determine the time of flight, the horizontal displacement, and the peak height of the football.
Horizontal displacement is the info which would be most valuable, along with max height. Time is nice to know, but unless you are calculating how many you can shoot in a match, then it's not really relative.


And if you want to cheat, and use the max allowed velocity here (12m/s), and know how much the mass of the balls are in KG's you can use this.

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/cla...jarapplet.html
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