SOLUTION: Science and medicine. Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high. (Use the formula t=1/4Vs

SOLUTION: Science and medicine. Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high. (Use the formula t=1/4Vs_) I'm using the V as a square roo

Question 30172: Science and medicine. Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high. (Use the formula t=1/4Vs_) I'm using the V as a square root symbol.

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The formula for the time taken to fall freely under gravity through a distance s is given by,
s = (1/2)gt�
Since you are workng in imperial units (feeet, pounds seconds), then g = 32 ft/s�
So,
s = (1/2)32t�
s = 16t�
t� = s/16
t = √(s)/4
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Since s = 1400,
t = √(1400)/4
t = 37.417/4
t = 9.354 s
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