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On the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard

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On the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard

On the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball with a golf club improvised from a tool. The free-fall acceleration on the moon is 1/6 of its value on earth. Suppose he hit the ball with a speed of 27 m/s at an angle 22° above the horizontal.