GENERAL SANTOS DOCTORS’ MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION, INC.

Bulaong Subdivision, Barangay West, General Santos City 9500

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COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

Assignment 6

FREEFALL

I. Read and understand each problem below. Show all your solutions and
round off your final answer to two decimal places.

1. An object falls from a high building and hits the ground in 10.2 s. What is the distance
that it fell? Neglect air resistance.

2. An object falls from a high building. What will its velocity be after 12.0 s of falling?

3. You are in the bathroom and you accidentally dropped your cell phone in the sink below.
If you are 0.50 m above the sink, how long do you have before your cellphone is a goner?

4. Jason and his friends drops a bowling ball off a cliff to try to catch the snatcher. The cliff
is 132 m high. (a) How long does it take the ball to fall to the ground? (b) What is its
impact velocity? (c) How far does it fall in the first 3.0 seconds? (d) How fast is it going
at the end of 3.0 seconds? (e) How long would it take the same ball to fall if the cliff was
on the moon (g = 1.67 m/s2)?