Question

I want to make a Twinkie splat when I throw it off a building. Because Twinkies are notoriously hard to crush, I want it to hit the ground moving at 128ft/s. I am going to throw it straight down, with a speed of 8ft/s off the roof of the building. How high does the building need to be

Answer 1

Answer:

$s=253.6524712 \approx 253.7$

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

Initial speed$v=8ft/s$

Final speed $v=128ft/s$

Generally the Newtons  equation of motion is mathematically represented by

$V_f^2-V_0^2=2as$

with

Therefore

$a=g=>9.81m/s^2\\a=32.17ft/s^2$

Therefore

$128^2-8^2=2*(32.17)*s$

$16320=2*(32.17)*s$

$s=\frac{16320}{2*(32.17)}$

$s=253.6524712 \approx 253.7$