Question

A skydiver jumps out of a hovering helicopter, so there is no forward velocity. Ignore wind resistance for this exercise. What is the skydiver's acceleration?

Answer 1

Ignoring all air resistance, the sky diver's acceleration is 9.8 m/s^2 downward.

it wouldn't make any difference if he HAD any initial velocity at the moment he left the helicopter ... upward, downward, forward, backward, would not change his acceleration. It would still be 9.8 m/s^2, from the moment he left the chopper until the moment he hit the ground (or anything else)

Answer 2

a = g

Step-by-step explanation:

in this scenario, the diver is free-falling, hence his acceleration is equal to the pull of gravity