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Noriko Kamachi
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Homework Statement
If you throw a ball straight down from a building that is 443 meters tall with a velocity of 22 m/s how long would it take to reach the ground, and what would be its speed at impact?
Homework Equations
Since the ball is being thrown down with a velocity of 22 m/s I plug that into the gravitational constant equation for Earth -4.9t^2 -22t +443.
The Attempt at a Solution
To get when the ball hits the ground I set -4.9t^2 -22t +443=0. Solving for t I get about ~7.5. To get the speed at impact I took the second derivative which is -9.8t -22. Plugging in t into this equation I get |-9.8(7.5) -22| for 95.5 m/s for the speed at impact. Was this problem handled in the correct fashion?