Physics

Problem

A tennis player serves a ball horizontally from a height of

2.4\,\text{m}

. The net is situated

12\,\text{m}

away from the server and has a height of

0.9\,\text{m}

. Determine the minimum initial velocity required for the ball to just clear the net. (Take

g = 10\,\text{m/s}^{2}

)