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A ball dropped from a state of rest at time t = 0 travels a distance s(t) = 4.9t 2 mint seconds.
(a) How far does the ball travel during the time interval [2, 2.5]?
(b) Compute the average velocity over [2, 2.5].
(c) Compute the average velocity for the time intervals in the table and
estimate the ball's instantaneous velocity at t = 2.
Interval | [2, 2.01] | [2, 2.005] | [2, 2.001] | [2, 2.00001] |
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