The Rogers Centre in Toronto. Ontario, has a center field fence that is 10 feet high and 400 feet from home plate. A ball is hit 3 feet above the ground and leaves the bat at a speed of 100 miles per hour.
(a) The ball leaves the bat at an angle of with the horizontal. Write the vector-valued function for the path of the ball.
(b) Use a graphing utility to graph the vector-valued function for , and . Use the graphs to approximate the minimum angle required for the hit to be a home run.
(c) Determine analytically the minimum angle required for the hit to be a home run.
