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Help with calculus question!?
To estimate the height of a building, a weight is dropped from the top of the building into a pool at ground level. How high is the building if the splash is seen 9.2 seconds after the weight is dropped?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
How is this calculus?
This is just simple projectile motion modelled by:
time to fall = sqrt(2*height dropped/g)
g = 9.81, time to fall = 9.2s
Time for simple algebra!
solve for height, and u'll get 415.16 m.
Algebra is not calculus.
