In his first attempt, a long jumper took off from the spring board with a speed of 8 ms\(^{-1}\) at 30° to the horizontal. He makes a second attempt with th...

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In his first attempt, a long jumper took off from the spring board with a speed of 8 ms\(^{-1}\) at 30° to the horizontal. He makes a second attempt with the same speed at 45° to the horizontal. Given that the expression for the horizontal range of a projectile is \(\frac{u^2 sin 2\theta}{g}\) where all the symbols have their usual meanings, show that he gains a distance of 0.8576 m in his second attempt. [g = 10ms\(^{-2}\)]