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PHYSICS I

FREELY FALLING BODIES 3.1

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If a flea can jump straight up to a height of 0.440 m, what is its initial speed as it leaves the ground?
How long is it in the air?

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2. A brick is dropped from the roof of a building. The brick strikes the ground in 2.50 s. You may ignore air
How tall, in meters, is the building?
What is the magnitude of the bricks
resistance, so the brick is in free fall.
velocity just before it reaches the ground?

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3. You throw a ball straight down from an apartment balcony to the ground below. The ball has an initial velocity of
5.00 m/s, directed downward, and it hits the ground 2.00 s after it is released. Find the height of the balcony.

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4. A pitcher throws a baseball vertically upward with an initial speed of 15.0 m/s, releasing the ball when it is 2.00 m
What is the maximum height reached by the ball?
above the ground and then catching it at the same point.
How long is the ball in the air?

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5. A large boulder is ejected vertically upward from a volcano with an initial speed of 40.0 m/s. Air resistance may be
At what time after being ejected is the boulder moving at 20.0 m/s upward?
At what time is it
ignored.
When is the displacement of the boulder from its initial position zero?
When
moving at 20.0 m/s downward?
What are the magnitude and direction of the acceleration while the boulder is
is the velocity of the boulder zero?
moving upward? moving downward?
at the highest point?

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6. A ball thrown vertically upward has an upward velocity of 6.00 m/s at a point 12.0 m above where it was thrown.
How long does the ball take to reach that point?

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7. A rock is dropped from a treetop 19.6 m high, and then, 1.00 s later, a second rock is thrown down. With what
initial velocity must the second rock be thrown if it is to reach the ground at the same time as the first?

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8. You are on the roof of the physics building, 46.0 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is 1.80 m tall, is
walking alongside the building at a constant speed of 1.20 m/s. If you wish to drop an egg on your professors head,
where should the professor be when you released the egg? Assume that the egg is in free fall.

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9. A woman looks out her apartment window and sees a ball moving downward at 20.0 m/s. What were the balls
position and velocity 5.00 s earlier, if you assume it was in free fall for that long?

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Challenge Problems
10. A physics student with too much free time drops a watermelon from the roof of a building. He hears the sound of
the watermelon going splat 2.50 s later. How high is the building? The speed of sound is 340 m/s. You may ignore
air resistance.

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