Define displacement with reference to a point.
An object is launched horizontally from a slope at a speed of $6.0\,\text{m s}^{-1}$, as shown in Fig. 2.1. After $0.71\,\text{s}$, the object comes to rest on the slope without rolling or bouncing. Determine the horizontal distance travelled by the object.
Determine the vertical distance covered by the object.
Use your answers from (b)(i) and (b)(ii) to calculate $\theta$.
Determine the magnitude of the displacement of the object from where it started.
Using energy, calculate the speed of the object immediately before it lands.