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A person is standing on top of a building. While standing at the edge of the building the person throws a water balloon downward with a speed of 14 m/s and at an angle of 44° below the horizontal. It takes 2.9 s for the water balloon to hit the person's friend. (a)  How high is the building in meters?  (b)  How fast is the water balloon moving when it hits the friend on the ground? Give your answer in m/s.  (c)  What was the horizontal distance between the friend on the ground and the building in meters?

A baseball player hits a homerun during a game. The ball leaves his bat at 27 degrees with a speed of 17 m/s. The ball soars into the upper deck 200 m from home plate. The ball takes 3.5 s to reach the upper deck. How high above the ground did the ball land?

A single-engine air plain starts its engine at one end of the runway. It accelerates at a constant rate and takes off at 38 m/s after 20 seconds on the runway, just as it is running out of runway. How long is the runway? Your Answer:

A male volleyball player performs a jump serve and hits the ball 2 meters right above the end line. A volleyball court is 18 meters long, with the net situated right at the middle. The player's serve barely touches the top of the net at exactly 0.5 s.

garden hose sprays a burst of water horizontally from 1.6 m above level ground. It hits a fence 2.1 m away, horizontally, at a height 0.93 m above the ground. What was the initial speed of the burst of water?

You are traveling in a convertible with the top down. The car is moving at a constant velocity of 13.6 m/s, due east along flat ground. You throw a tomato straight upward at a speed of 9.17 m/s. How far has the car moved when you get a chance to catch the tomato?

A player passes a basketball to another player who catches it at the same level from which it was thrown. The initial speed of the ball is 8.1 m/s , and it travels a distance of 4.2 m .   What was the initial direction of the ball? What was its time of flight?

A drop tower of an amusement park rises at 5 m/s and is 45 m above theground when one of the riders drops her phone. How long does it take for the phone to fall to the ground?

A piano has been pushed to the top of the ramp at the back of a moving van. The workers think it is safe, but as they walk away, it begins to roll down the ramp. If the back of the truck is 1.0 m above the ground and the ramp is inclined at 20°, how much time do the workers have to get to the piano before it reaches the bottom of the ramp?