SOLUTION: This time he has a mass of 980kg and the airline company said he was too heavy to have a parachute so he jumped without a parachute (again). If you had a starting height of 1km off

Question 1103724: This time he has a mass of 980kg and the airline company said he was too heavy to have a parachute so he jumped without a parachute (again). If you had a starting height of 1km off the ground and an acceleration rate of 9m/s when you jump, what is your potential and kinetic energy when you are halfway through your freefall and before your death.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

When he starts he has a potential energy of,

When he's at 500m, his potential energy is half of that,

and the kinetic energy is now the other half,

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