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A toy car runs off the edge of a table that is 1.807 m high. The car lands 0.3012 m from the base of the table. How long does it take for the car to fall? The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2. Answer in units of s. What is the horizontal velocity of the car? Answer in units of m/s.

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Answer:

a) [tex]t=0.60 s[/tex]

b) [tex]v_{ox} =0.5m/s[/tex]

Explanation:

From the exercise we have initial height and final X position

[tex]y_{o}=1.807m[/tex]

[tex]X=0.3012m[/tex]

a) From the concept of free falling objects we have that

[tex]y=y_{o}+v_{oy}t+\frac{1}{2}gt^{2}[/tex]

Since the car runs off the edge of the table, that means the car is moving in x direction with [tex]v_{oy}=0m/s[/tex] and at the end of the motion [tex]y=0m[/tex]

[tex]0=1.807m-\frac{1}{2}(9.8)t^{2}[/tex]

Solving for t

t=± 0.6072 s

Since the time can not be negative, the answer is t=0.6072 s

b) To find the horizontal velocity of the car, we need to use the time that we just calculate

[tex]X=v_{ox}t[/tex]

[tex]v_{ox}=\frac{X}{t}=\frac{0.3012m}{0.6072s}  =0.5m/s[/tex]

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