Halliday, Resnick & Walker — Motion in Two and Three Dimensions: Problem 36

During a tennis match, a player serves the ball at \( 23.6 \text{ m/s} \), with the center of the ball leaving the racquet horizontally \( 2.37 \text{ m} \) above the court surface. The net is \( 12 \text{ m} \) away and \( 0.90 \text{ m} \) high. When the ball reaches the net, (a) does the ball clear it and (b) what is the distance between the center of the ball and the top of the net? Suppose that, instead, the ball is served as before but now it leaves the racquet at \( 5.00^\circ \) below the horizontal. When the ball reaches the net, (c) does the ball clear it and (d) what now is the distance between the center of the ball and the top of the net?