Question

I throw a ball off the edge of a 15.0m cliff. If I threw it horizontally at 8.0 m/s, how much time did it take to fall?

Answer 1

Just ignore the horizontal component 

if you have a vertical displacement of 15m, 0ms^1 initial velocity, end velocity is ignored, we know the acceleration due to gravity as 9.81ms^2 so we can work out the time using SUVAT

S=15
U=0
V=?
A=9.81
T=?

S=UT + 0.5 AT^2

UT=0

therefore,

S=0.5AT^2

rearrange to:

T=SQR (2S/A)

T = 1.75 seconds