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I was wondering if i can get some help solving this problem.. If a juggler can toss a ball into the air at a velocity of 64ft/sec from a height of 6 ft, then what is the max. height reached by the ball?
You need to use two formula:
v = u + at
and
s = ut + at^2/2
Rearrange the first one to give:
t = (v - u) / a
Now convert your value of 64 ft/sec into metres per second and use this as the value of u in the formula.
a = -10 (gravity acting downwards gives -'ve sign, a is not exactly 10 but I'll use 10 here). Finally v = 0 (the final velocity of the ball at the top of the motion is zero).
Put these values into the formula to get a value for t (the time to get to maximium height) now use the second foumla to find a value for s (the distance travelled). Finally add 6ft to this.
That's it.
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Are you in Calculus, bella? If so, then you just start out with:
a = -32ft/sec
Where a is acceleration. Since gravity is always working on the ball, is constant, and is negative because it's "pushing" the ball downward, the acceleration is always -32.
Now we take this value and integrate it to get:
v = -32t + C. Since v at t=0 is 64,
64 = -32(0) + C, and C = 64
so v = -32t + 64
Integrate again, and we find that:
s(distance) = -16t^2 + 64t + C
But we know that the distance at time 0 is 0:
0 = -16(0)^2 + 64(0) + C, C = 0
So s = -16t^2 + 64t
And we have just derived the equations that gnitsuk gave.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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