Voting Question: Calculus Problem that deals with solving for angles?

25 October 2011, 12:25 am

Problem: Tweety and Sylvester are working as Microsoft in adjacent cubicle in Redmond, Washington. They can't see each other because of the barrier in between, But Sylvester supposed to throw his Zip drive at tweety's cage by bouncing it off the ceiling. Since they are only governed by the laws of cartoon physics, the drive will travel in a straight line until it hits the ceiling, where it bounces off at the same angle, and travels in a straight line again. So they need help to figure out the angle at which Sylvester should throw the Zip drive. So the distance between ceiling and floor is 4m. The distance between Sylvester and Tweety is 3m. Tweety's cage is 1.5m off the floor. and Sylvester is sitting on a chair that is 0.5 meters high.... Read More »