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Past exam of the physics 1 paper of the University of Oxford 2014 resit 7 Solution by
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Use coordinates down the inclined plane and along its upward normal, with the launch point as origin. Gravity has components and . For launch angle above the downhill direction,The nonzero root of is . Substituting into and combining the two trigonometric terms gives the distance along the slope:This assumes , , and a downhill landing with , as well as the neglected air resistance. It reduces to the horizontal projectile range at . The angle relative to the horizontal is , which explains the shifted cosine. The original diagram uses stipulated illustrative angles; no examination figure is being reconstructed.
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