Physics of Everyday Phenomena
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 2E
For the ball in exercise E1:
- a. Through what distance does the ball fall in the first 0.7 seconds of its flight? (Assume g = 10 m/s2.)
- b. How far does it fall in the first 1.4 seconds of its flight?
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