the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, after being told that Darth Vader is his father, Luke Skywalker falls from a ledge in Cloud City (not on the Earth, so the magnitude of the free-fall acceleration is not necessarily 9.81 m/s2). Suppose he falls a distance of 61.0 m in 5.5 s. Assuming he starts from rest, answer the following questions. Use

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In the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, after being told that Darth Vader is his father, Luke Skywalker falls from a ledge in Cloud City (not on the Earth, so the magnitude of the free-fall acceleration is not necessarily 9.81 m/s2). Suppose he falls a distance of 61.0 m in 5.5 s. Assuming he starts from rest, answer the following questions. Use an upward-pointing y axis. (Express your answers in vector form.)

(a) What is Luke's velocity 5.5 s after he starts to fall?

(b) What is the constant acceleration due to gravity, experienced by Luke, on Cloud City?
 
 
 
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