Bob has just finished climbing a sheer cliff above a beach, and wants to figure out how high he climbed. All he has to use, however, is a baseball, a stopwatch, and a friend on the beach below with a long measuring tape. Bob is a pitcher and he knows that the fastest he can throw the ball is about vo = 34.5 m/s. Bob starts the stopwatch as he throws the ball (with no way to measure the ball's initial trajectory), and watches carefully. The ball rises and then falls, and after t₁ = 0.510 s the ball is once again level with Bob. Bob cannot see well enough to time when the ball hits the ground. Bob's friend then measures that the ball landed x = 128 m from the base of the cliff. How high up is Bob, if the ball started exactly 2 m above the edge of the cliff? 2 m -- X Bob's position= x10 TOOLS m

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Bob has just finished climbing a sheer cliff above a beach, and wants to figure out how high he climbed. All he has to use,
however, is a baseball, a stopwatch, and a friend on the beach below with a long measuring tape. Bob is a pitcher and he knows
that the fastest he can throw the ball is about vo = 34.5 m/s. Bob starts the stopwatch as he throws the ball (with no way to
measure the ball's initial trajectory), and watches carefully. The ball rises and then falls, and after t₁ = 0.510 s the ball is once
again level with Bob. Bob cannot see well enough to time when the ball hits the ground. Bob's friend then measures that the ball
landed x = 128 m from the base of the cliff. How high up is Bob, if the ball started exactly 2 m above the edge of the cliff?
2 m
--
X
Bob's position=
x10
TOOLS
m
Transcribed Image Text:Bob has just finished climbing a sheer cliff above a beach, and wants to figure out how high he climbed. All he has to use, however, is a baseball, a stopwatch, and a friend on the beach below with a long measuring tape. Bob is a pitcher and he knows that the fastest he can throw the ball is about vo = 34.5 m/s. Bob starts the stopwatch as he throws the ball (with no way to measure the ball's initial trajectory), and watches carefully. The ball rises and then falls, and after t₁ = 0.510 s the ball is once again level with Bob. Bob cannot see well enough to time when the ball hits the ground. Bob's friend then measures that the ball landed x = 128 m from the base of the cliff. How high up is Bob, if the ball started exactly 2 m above the edge of the cliff? 2 m -- X Bob's position= x10 TOOLS m
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