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Motion 3

The document contains 6 practice problems involving constant acceleration motion. Each problem provides the initial conditions and asks for the time and/or distance of an object in free fall or horizontal motion. Numerical answers are given for each problem involving the time or distance of falling objects, projectiles, or electrons accelerating in the presence of electric fields.

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Motion 3

The document contains 6 practice problems involving constant acceleration motion. Each problem provides the initial conditions and asks for the time and/or distance of an object in free fall or horizontal motion. Numerical answers are given for each problem involving the time or distance of falling objects, projectiles, or electrons accelerating in the presence of electric fields.

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Some Practice Problems in Constant Acceleration Motion

In the problems below that involve free fall, use 10 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity in metric units. It makes the calculation easier. For English units, use 32 ft/s2. Numerical answers are given for each problem. 1. A ball is dropped from a high window. After what time will its speed be 50 m/s? How far will it have fallen by that time? (5 sec, 125 m)

2. A batter hits a fly ball straight up into the air. The catcher catches the ball 6 sec later. How high did the ball go? What was its original speed? This is Canadian baseball, so use metric units. (45 m, 30 m/s)

3. A naughty student throws a water balloon straight down with a speed of 5 ft/s from a window 40 ft above the ground. When will the balloon hit the head of an innocent, 6-ft-tall passerby? What is its speed when it hits? (1.31 sec, 46.9 ft/s)

4. An electron with speed of 104 m/s enters a forbidden region where an electric force tries to push it back along its path with a constant acceleration of 107 m/s2. How far will the electron go into the forbidden region? How long will it be in that region? (5 m, 0.002 sec)

5. A root beer float slides off the end of a 4-ft-high drugstore counter with an initial speed of 3 ft/s. When does it hit the floor? How far (horizontally) from the end of the counter does it land? (0.5 sec, 1.5 ft)

6. A plane flying horizontally at 500 ft/s drops a bomb just as it crosses a coastline. The bomb lands two miles from the coast. At what height is the plane flying? (6690 ft)

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