As the first human astronaut to land on a distant planet, you are standing on the edge of a small cliff. You toss a small experiment apparatus straight up in the air and it reaches a maximum height before falling to the bottom of the cliff. You timed the event and it took 2.00 s to reach the top of its trajectory, and an additional 10.0 s to reach the bottom of the cliff. Given that the gravitational acceleration is about 4.00 m/s?, how high is the cliff? (For simplicity, let's assume that the astronaut tossed the ball from the surface of the cliff) Pick the correct answer 288 m 200 m O 8 m O 128 m O 192 m

As the first human astronaut to land on a distant planet, you are standing on the edge of a small cliff. You toss a small experiment apparatus straight up in the air and it reaches a maximum height before falling to the bottom of the cliff. You timed the event and it took 2.00 s to reach the top of its trajectory, and an additional 10.0 s to reach the bottom of the cliff. Given that the gravitational acceleration is about 4.00 m/s?, how high is the cliff? (For simplicity, let's assume that the astronaut tossed the ball from the surface of the cliff) Pick the correct answer 288 m 200 m O 8 m O 128 m O 192 m

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As the first human astronaut to land on a distant
planet, you are standing on the edge of a small
cliff. You toss a small experiment apparatus
straight up in the air and it reaches a maximum
height before falling to the bottom of the cliff. You
timed the event and it took 2.00 s to reach the top
of its trajectory, and an additional 10.0 s to reach
the bottom of the cliff.
Given that the gravitational acceleration is about
4.00 m/s?, how high is the cliff?
(For simplicity, let's assume that the astronaut
tossed the ball from the surface of the cliff)
Pick the correct answer
288 m
200 m
O 8 m
128 m
O 192 m

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