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24 - More Freefall Problems

This document contains 18 free-fall problems involving objects moving under constant acceleration due to gravity. The problems cover concepts such as velocity, acceleration, displacement, time, and graphs of position and velocity over time. They involve objects like coins, pebbles, balls, camera probes, flowerpots, shoes, fish, boxes and people being dropped, thrown, or falling under Earth's gravity. The answers provided calculate values for displacement, velocity, time, and acceleration in these different free-fall scenarios.

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24 - More Freefall Problems

This document contains 18 free-fall problems involving objects moving under constant acceleration due to gravity. The problems cover concepts such as velocity, acceleration, displacement, time, and graphs of position and velocity over time. They involve objects like coins, pebbles, balls, camera probes, flowerpots, shoes, fish, boxes and people being dropped, thrown, or falling under Earth's gravity. The answers provided calculate values for displacement, velocity, time, and acceleration in these different free-fall scenarios.

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More Free-fall Problems


1. A coin is tossed vertically upward.
a. What happens to its velocity while it is in the air?

b. Does its acceleration increase, decrease, or remain constant while it is in the air?

2. A pebble is dropped down a well and hits the water 1.5 s later. Using the equations for motion with
constant acceleration, determine the distance from the edge of the well to the water’s surface.

3. A ball is thrown vertically upward. What are its velocity and acceleration when it reaches its maximum
altitude? What is its acceleration just before it hits the ground?

4. Two children are bouncing small rubber balls. One child simply drops a ball. At the same time, the second
child throws a ball downward so that it has an initial speed of 10 m/s. What is the acceleration of each ball
while in motion?

5. A robot probe drops a camera off the rim of a 239 m high cliff on Mars, where the free-fall acceleration is
−3.7 m/s2.
a. Find the velocity with which the camera hits the ground.

b. Find the time required for it to hit the ground.


6. A flowerpot falls from a windowsill 25.0 m above the sidewalk.
a. How fast is the flowerpot moving when it strikes the ground?

b. How much time does a passerby on the sidewalk below have to move out of the way before the
flowerpot hits the ground?

7. A tennis ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of +8.0 m/s.
a. What will the ball’s speed be when it returns to its starting point?

b. How long will the ball take to reach its starting point?

8. Stephanie hits a volleyball from a height of 0.80 m and gives it an initial velocity of +7.5 m/s straight up.
a. How high will the volleyball go?

b. How long will it take the ball to reach its maximum height? (Hint: You know v at max height.)

9. Maria tosses an apple upward at 2.4 m/s. a. How high will the apple go?

b. If she throws the apple from a height of 1.3 m, will the apple reach a friend in a treehouse 2.3 m above the
ground?
10. A parachutist descending at a speed of 10.0 m/s loses a shoe at an altitude of 50.0 m.
a. When does the shoe reach the ground? Include a diagram of the shoe’s path.

b. What is the velocity of the shoe just before it hits the ground?

11. A small first-aid kit is dropped by a rock climber who is descending steadily at 1.3 m/s. After 2.5 s, what
is the velocity of the first-aid kit, and how far is the kit below the drop point?

12. A small fish is dropped by a pelican that is rising steadily at 0.50 m/s.
a. After 2.5 s, what is the velocity of the fish? Include a diagram of the fish’s path.

b. What is the displacement of the fish after 2.5 s?

Answers: 2) 11.04 m 5) -42 m/s, 11.4 s 6) -22.1 m/s, 2.3 s 7) -8 m/s, 1.63 s 8) 3.67 m, 0.76 s 9) No – Only
reaches 1.59m 10) -32.9 m/s, 2.33 s 11) -25.8 m/s, 33.9 m 12) -24 m/s, -29.4 m
Freefall Problems with Graphs

13) A box is dropped out a window. It lands 8 s later. How far did it fall?
Sketch a position vs. time graph and velocity vs. time graph that show the motion of the box in the problem
above.

14) A stapler is dropped from a height of 2900 cm. How long did it take to land?

15) A water bottle was thrown straight down from a platform at an initial speed of 15 m/s. It hit the ground
2.4 s later. How high is the platform?
Sketch a position vs. time graph and velocity vs. time graph that show the motion of the bottle in the problem
above.

16) Ms. Roth is fired into the air at a speed of 300 m/s. How long does it take for her to reach her high point?
How high did Ms. Roth go?

What is Ms. Roth’s hang time?

What is Ms. Roth’s velocity when she returns to her starting point?
Sketch a position vs. time graph and velocity vs. time graph that show the motion of Ms. Roth in the problem
above.

17) A bullet is fired straight into the air at 400 m/s. How high does it go?
Sketch a position vs. time graph and velocity vs. time graph that show the motion of the bullet in the problem
above.

18) A tennis ball is tossed upward from a height of 1.7 m above the ground. How fast was it moving when it
was tossed if it takes 1.36 s to hit the ground?

Answers 13) 313.6 m 14) 2.43 s 15) 64.2 m 16) 30.6 s, 4590 m, 61.2 s 17) 8160 m 18) 5.42 m/s

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