Question

John Wayne was striding down Main Street when a 9.5 kg bar stool came flying down out of a second story saloon window at 4.0 m/s at an angle of 25 degrees to the ground. Unbelievably quick on the draw, Mr. Wayne pulled out his trusty monster magnum and fired off a 42 gram slug upward at an angle of 15 degrees to the street level. If the stool was stopped dead in its (horizontal) tracks by the bullet (which lodged itself in the stool) and eventually fell straight down to the ground, how fast was the speed of the bullet, and how long after impact did the bar-stool hit the ground assuming the collision took place 3.5 meters up in the air?

Answer 1