Question

While Hiking in the wilderness, you come to the top of a cliff that is 60.0m high. you throw a stone from the cliff, giving it an initial velocity of 21m/s at 35deg above the horizontal. How far from the base of the cliff does the stone land? (85m)

I tried this question but i get the answer as 75m. I found the time and there after the horizontal component and multiplied it together. Please help.

Answer 1

You did it correctly, let me see your calculations.

Answer 2

actually I got the same answer as yours and I did the same thing so the book is wrong probably

Answer 3

Full work has been shown at #2 here:
aquantaday.wordpress.com/grade-12-physics-challenge-problems-1-kinematics/

The answer is indeed 85 m.