Question

A girl throws a tennis ball upward with an initial velocity of 4 m/s. What is the maximum displacement of the ball?

Answer 1

Answer:

0.82 m

Explanation:

The ball is in free fall - uniform accelerated motion with constant acceleration downward, $a=g=-9.8 m/s^2$ (acceleration of gravity). So we can use the following suvat equation to solve the problem:

$v^2-u^2=2as$

where

v is the final velocity

u = 4 m/s is the initial velocity

a is the acceleration

s is the displacement

At the maximum displacement, v = 0 (the velocity becomes zero). Substituting and solving for s, we find:

$s=-\frac{u^2}{2a}=-\frac{4^2}{2(-9.8)}=0.82 m$