A roadrunner is cruising at 3 m/s without knowing the road under its feet is about to run out, at the edge of a cliff, some 15 m above a flat valley below. Fortunately a roadrunner CAN fly so it just flew away. If indeed the roadrunner couldn't fly and would not be affected by air drag, how far horizontally from the cliff will it hit the valley (flat
A roadrunner is cruising at 3 m/s without knowing the road under its feet is about to run out, at the edge of a cliff, some 15 m above a flat valley below. Fortunately a roadrunner CAN fly so it just flew away. If indeed the roadrunner couldn't fly and would not be affected by air drag, how far horizontally from the cliff will it hit the valley (flat
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A roadrunner is cruising at 3 m/s without knowing the road under its feet is about to run out, at the edge of a cliff, some 15 m above a flat valley below. Fortunately a roadrunner CAN fly so it just flew away.
If indeed the roadrunner couldn't fly and would not be affected by air drag, how far horizontally from the cliff will it hit the valley (flat) below?
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