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When baseball players throw the ball in from the out-field they usually allow it to take one bounce before it reaches the in field, on theory that the ball arrives sooner that way. Suppose the angle at which a bounced ball leaves the ground is same as the angle at which the outfielder throw it as shown in figure.

Ball speed after the bounce is one-half of what it was before bounce. Assume that ball is always thrown with same initially speed.