A ball is dropped from an upper floor, some unknown distance above Tom’s apartment. As he looks out of his window, which is 1.20m tall, Tom observes that it takes the ball 0.170s to traverse the length of the window. Determine how high above the top of Tom’s window the ball was dropped. Ignore the effects of air resistance

A ball is dropped from an upper floor, some unknown distance above Tom’s apartment. As he looks out of his window, which is 1.20m tall, Tom observes that it takes the ball 0.170s to traverse the length of the window. Determine how high above the top of Tom’s window the ball was dropped. Ignore the effects of air resistance

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

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Chapter2: Motion In One Dimension

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