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Imagine a rock is dropped from the top of a tall building. After 2 seconds of falling, the rock’s instantaneous speed is approximately 20m/s. does anyone know is it true or false

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True
It's in free fall( 9.8 m/s), 2 seconds have passed.
User Grzenio
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Answer:

TRUE

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that stone is falling freely from rest

so here we can use kinematics to find the final speed of the stone


v_f = v_i + at

here we know that


v_i = 0


a = 9.81 m/s^2


t = 2 s

now we have


v_f = 0 + (9.81)(2)


v_f = 19.62 m/s

so final speed of the rock is nearly 20 m/s

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