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Acceleration Due To Gravity - Dropped Objects
This activity is designed to assess your understanding of acceleration due to gravity for dropped objects.
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| A ball is dropped from a window 24 m high. How long would it take to reach the ground? | 2.21 s |
| A trained acrobat can safely land on the ground at speeds up to 15 m/s. What is the greatest height from which the acrobat can fall? | 11.47 m |
| A firefighter drops from a window into a net. If the window is 34 m above the net, at what speed does the firefighter hit the net? | 25.83 m/s |
| At the Six Flags amusement park near Atlanta, Georgia, Free Fall riders seated in a padded gondola are taken to the top of a 10-story tower. Then the gondola is dropped 30 m down a vertical track that curves near the bottom, where the gondola slows to a stop. How long does it take to fall from top to bottom? What maximum speed is reached? | 2.47 s; 24.26 m/s |
| At what speed would you hit the floor if you stepped off a chair 0.50 m high? | 3.13 m/s |
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Algebra I and Geometry Teacher |
Patrick Henry High School |
| Ashland, VA |
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