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physics question please help!?

A basketball player achieves a hang time of

0.658 s in dunking the ball.

What vertical height will he attain? The

acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .

I just started basic physics and I can't seem to find an equation that doesn't involve 2 unknown variables for this question. thank you!

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  • 8 years ago
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    hang time is up + down

    h=1/2gt^2 = 1/2*9.8*(0.658/2)^2= 0.53[m]

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