In a movie, the FBI is investigating an assassination attempt on the life of the president. The setting is a parade in New York, and an amateur photographer has made a videotape of the passing motorcade. A careful examination of the tape shows in the background a falling object that turns out to be a pair of binoculars used by the would-be assassin.From the tape the FBI is able to determine that the binoculars fell the last 12 m before hitting the ground in 0.38 s. It is vital to them to know the height,and hence the building floor, from which the binoculars were dropped. Can this be determined from the given information? if so, from what height were the binoculars dropped?

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In a movie, the FBI is investigating an assassination attempt on the life of the president. The setting is a parade in New York, and an amateur photographer has made a videotape of the passing motorcade. A careful examination of the tape shows in the background a falling object that turns out to be a pair of binoculars used by the would-be assassin.From the tape the FBI is able to determine that the binoculars fell the last 12 m before hitting the ground in 0.38 s. It is vital to them to know the height,and hence the building floor, from which the binoculars were dropped. Can this be determined from the given information? if so, from what height were the binoculars dropped?
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