Question

a sleepy atudent drops a calculator out of a window yhata 20.7 m off the geound. we can ignore air resistance. what js the velocity of the calculator after falling for 1.8 s

Answer 1

The acceleration of gravity is

9.8 m/s^2 down.

When an object falls out of a hand, its speed after 1.8s is

(9.8)x(1.8) = 17.6 m/s down.

It doesn't matter what it is, how much it weighs, or how high it was dropped from.

If it's more than 17.6 m/s, then this happened on a different, bigger planet.

If it's less than 17.6 m/s, then it must have hit something on the way down, like some air or something.