Question

A student is playing with a radio-controlled race car on the balcony of a sixth-floor apartment. An accidental

turn sends the car through the railing and over the edge of the balcony. Does the time it takes the car to fall
depend upon the speed it had when it left the balcony? Assume the car is moving horizontally as it goes over
the edge of the balcony.

Answer 1

No, it is independent

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that car is moving horizontally

so the vertical component of the speed is zero initially

so in order to hit the ground we know that

`\Delta y = v_y t + (1)/(2)at^2`

so here we know that

`h = 0 + (1)/(2)gt^2`

on solving above equation for time

`t = \sqrt{(2h)/(g)}`

so we will say that it will not depends on the initial horizontal speed