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Stone bounces forward when thrown at wide angles, but when thrown perpendicular, it just sinks. Why?

Re: Stone bounces forward when thrown at wide angles, but when thrown perpendicular, it just sinks. Why?

by Prakhar Tushu -
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I respect your curiosity. When you throw the stone at a wide angle the stone collides with the water and after coming up to surface it has some horizontal component of the velocity which is v cos x. And when falling perpendicular the angle made by the stone with the horizontal is 90 is horizontal component of velocity=v cos 90=v*0=0.