Finding the distance at which the shell will hit the ground.
All through WWI, the Germans had a gun called Big Bertha that was used to shell Paris. The shell had an initial speed of 1700 m/s at an initial inclination of 55o to the horizontal. If air resistance and other effects are ignored how far away did the shell hit?
1. 117.0 km
2. 500.0 km
3. 277.0 km
4. 423.0 km