Question

A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a 41 m vertical cliff and lands 112 m from the base of the cliff. How fast is the ball thrown horizontally from the top of the cliff?

Answer 1

Answer:

4.78 second

Explanation:

given data

vertical cliff = 41 m

height = 112 m

solution

we know here time taken to fall vertically from the cliff =  time taken to move horizontally   ..........................1

so we use here vertical component of ball

and that is accelerated motion with initial velocity = 0

so we can solve for it as

height = 0.5 ×  g ×  t²     ........................2

put here value

112 = 0.5 ×  9.8 ×  t²    

solve it we get

t²   = 22.857

t = 4.78 second

ball thrown horizontally from the top of the cliff in 4.78 second