You are hunting and have just fired a shot with the shotgun at a grouse in horizontal flight above you. Consider both the hail charge and the grouse as point masses that are at all times in a vertical xy-plane (see figure below). The grouse has a mass of 0.5kg, while the hail charge has a mass of 0.025kg
Assume that the hail charge hits the grouse at time t = 0, exactly at the moment the grouse reaches the y axis at a height of 20m (that is, the grouse's position is then given at x = 0 and y = 20m). After the grouse is hit, the grouse and the hail charge continue as one object. Immediately before the hail charge hits the grouse, the hail charge has a velocity vector.
vh =200i + 300j (denomination ms-1 ), while the grouse has velocity vector vr = −10i r (denomination ms-1 ). denomination 1 ms−
Where will the grouse fall down (on the x-axis)?
Justify the answer.