Answer:
1.8 m
Explanation:
Given: Glass falls from a table, smashes 0.6 seconds later
To find: How high a table is
Formula: Vv=gt, dv=1/2gt^2, t=2d/g
Solution: A table's <em>height</em> is measured from the top of the edge down to the floor. The tables are shown both have a height of 30 inches, which is common for many tables.
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Hence the table is 1.8 m high
The person's horizontal position is given by
and the time it takes for him to travel 56.6 m is
so your first computed time is the correct one.
The question requires a bit of careful reading, and I think there may be a mistake in the problem. The person's vertical velocity at time
is
which tells us that he would reach the ground at about . In this time, he would have traveled
But we're told that he is caught by a net at 56.6 m, which would mean that the net cannot have been placed at the same height from which he was launched. However, it's possible that the moment at which he was launched doesn't refer to the moment the cannon went off, but rather the moment at which the person left the muzzle of the cannon a fraction of a second after the cannon was set off. After this time, the person's initial vertical velocity would have been a bit smaller than
.