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If you drop an object from a height of 1.9 m, it will hit the ground in 0.62 s. if you throw a baseball horizontally with an initial speed of 34 m/s from the same height, how long will it take the ball to hit the ground?

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That's the cool thing about free fall. The amount of time it takes to fall remains the same.

In this case, a ball that is simply dropped from rest will fall at the same rate as a ball that had some umph in the horizontal direction.
If you drop an object from a height of 1.9 m, it will hit the ground in 0.62 s. if-example-1
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