Monday, April 30, 2012

more gravity problems.

Don't forget .... there could be a quiz next class.  Ooohhhhhhh.............

1.  Finish the Moon/Earth problem from last class.

2.  A ball kicked upwards (at the edge of a cliff) with an initial speed of 35 m/s.  It goes up, achieves apogee, and comes down along the side of the cliff, landing 20 m below where it was launched.  Find the total time in air.  I suggest the approach wherein you use the quadratic formula, but any good approach is fine by me.

3.  Consider dropping a pebble into a river below you (standing on a bridge).  The splash occurs 2.4 seconds after you drop it.  How high up is your bridge?

4.  A car accelerates at 2 m/s^2 for 5 seconds.  Then it maintains its velocity for 10 seconds.  Then the driver applies the brakes for 2 seconds to bring the car to a halt.

a.  how far did the car travel during the entire trip?  (Break it into little chunks of the trip.)

b.  draw the 3 related graphs of motion for this trip.

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