Well me and about a 1/3 of my class have been working on this problem for our takehome, been at it for 4 hours.
The question is what is the critical angle to the horizontal at which a stone can be thrown and always be moving away from the thrower. This means the distance from the origin to any point on the trajectory will always be increasing. We need to find the angle theta where this becomes true.
Weve been working on all sorts of ideas, none seem to work but with a little internet searching Ive found some people saying its about 70.83 degrees but there is no proof, what we need. The tests due tomorrow at 9:30 so we really need this soon its worth alot of points!!
Please any help is appreciated, I know theres alot of engineers here, someone must know or have ideas.
Thanks