document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=314958>Question 314958</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Trying to figure out this word problem...A frog leaps from a lily pad into the air with an initial vertical velocity of 20 feet per second.  Use the equation h=16t to the second+vt+s to determine how long the frog is in the air.  Thanx! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "No can do.  If you use:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ h\ =\ 16t^2\ +\ vt\ +\ s\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "presuming <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE v\"> is the initial velocity and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE s\"> is the initial height, then this frog must have a big red S emblazoned on its chest because once this frog takes off he is NEVER, and I repeat NEVER, going to come down again.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The reason I am so certain of this is that you have the factor that accounts for the acceleration due to gravity (the <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE 16t^2\"> part) the same sign as the initial velocity part.  So if the frog is jumping into the air with a positive initial velocity and the acceleration due to gravity is also positive, then what makes the frog come back down again?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Write back after you verify that the appropriate equation for height as a function of time is:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ h(t)\ =\ -16t^2\ +v_ot\ +\ h_o\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "where <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large v_o\"> is the initial velocity and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large h_o\"> is the initial height.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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