Question

2. If I drop a watermelon from the top of one of the tower dorms at CSU, and it takes 3.34 seconds to hit the ground, calculate how tall the building is in meters

Answer 1

Answer:

The building is 54.66 m tall

Explanation:

Free Fall

It occurs when an object falls under the sole influence of gravity and do not encounter air resistance.

If an object is dropped from rest in a free-falling motion, it falls with a constant acceleration called the acceleration of gravity, which value is $g = 9.8 m/s^2$.

The distance traveled by a dropped object at time t is:

$\displaystyle y=\frac{gt^2}{2}$

The watermelon is dropped from a tower dorm and takes t=3.34 seconds to hit the ground.

The distance traveled in that time is the height of the building:

$\displaystyle h=\frac{9.8*3.34^2}{2}$

h = 54.66 m

The building is 54.66 m tall