SOLUTION: how long will it take a ball dropped from top of a 225 foot tall building to hit the ground? rounded 2 decimals
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Question 475943: how long will it take a ball dropped from top of a 225 foot tall building to hit the ground? rounded 2 decimals
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Start with the function of the height of a falling object as a function of time:
where: AMP Parsing Error of [g = 32ft/sec^2]: Invalid function '': opening bracket expected at /home/ichudov/project_locations/algebra.com/templates/Algebra/Expression.pm line 70.
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(acceleration due to gravity), ( initial velocity), and (initial height)
When the ball reaches the ground, its height is zero, so set
Solve for t.
seconds.
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