SOLUTION: You jump off a diving board with an initial vertical velocity of 15 ft/sec. If the diving board is 30 feet above the water, how long will it take to hit the water?

Question 985283: You jump off a diving board with an initial vertical velocity of 15 ft/sec. If the diving board is 30 feet above the water, how long will it take to hit the water?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

This is really a physics problem because you did not provide the height function.

Plug in the values:

Since the water is height zero, set the function equal to zero and solve for

. Exclude any negative root.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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