SOLUTION: Suppose two gulls drop their prey 0.2 second apart, each from a height of 25 feet. Write functions for the heights of both shelled animals, using t=0 to represent the time that the

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Question 197127: Suppose two gulls drop their prey 0.2 second apart, each from a height of 25 feet. Write functions for the heights of both shelled animals, using t=0 to represent the time that the first gull drops its prey.
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The height function for an object in vertical motion (foot-pound-second units) is:



where is the initial velocity and is the initial height.

For this problem, the initial height is 25 feet and the initial velocity is 0, hence for the first bird:



And since the second bird dropped his shell 0.2 seconds later:

where the domain is


John