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AP Physics C: Mechanics
1.5 Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
1.4 Reference Frames and Relative Motion
1.2 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
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A schematic diagram showing a horizontal ground surface represented by a solid horizontal line. At the left, a set of Cartesian coordinate axes is shown with a horizontal axis labeled x pointing to the right and a vertical axis labeled y pointing upward, intersecting at an origin labeled O. A small rectangular cart sits on the horizontal line at the origin, with a horizontal arrow pointing to the right labeled a_0 extending from its right side. At the same origin O, a small solid circle represents a projectile, with a vertical arrow labeled v_0 pointing directly upward along the y-axis. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
A projectile launched vertically at the moment an accelerating cart departs the origin.
An open cart moves along a straight, horizontal track aligned with the \(x\)-axis with a constant acceleration \(\vec{a} = a_0 \hat{i}\). At time \(t = 0\), the cart is at rest at the origin \((x = 0, y = 0)\) of an inertial reference frame. At that same instant, a small projectile is launched from the origin with an initial velocity \(\vec{v}_0 = v_0 \hat{j}\). Let the cart define a non-inertial reference frame with coordinates \((x', y')\), whose origin is fixed to the cart and is at \((0,0)\) at \(t = 0\). Neglecting air resistance, which of the following expressions correctly describes the vertical position \(y'\) of the projectile as a function of its horizontal position \(x'\) in the reference frame of the cart throughout its flight?

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