Question

In the sport of billiards, event organizers often remove one of the rails on a pool table to allow players to measure the speed of their break shots (the opening shot of a game in which the player strikes a ball with his pool cue).The top of a pool table is a height ℎ=3.15 ft from the floor. If a player's ball lands a distance =12.75 ft from the table edge, what is her break shot speed 0

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Answer:

With the rail removed, a ball can fly off the table. As the only participant with a physics background, they have placed you in charge ofdetermining the speed of the players' break shots.