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A package dropped from an airplane reaches a velocity of 117.72 m/s in how many seconds? (Show all work)

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12 seconds

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User Mahinlma
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In order to work on this one, we have to ignore air resistance.
If we include the effects of air resistance in our calculation, we would need
a ton of information that's not given in the question, and we would need an
Aeronautical Engineer to know how to use it all.

Ignoring air resistance . . .

Gravity adds 9.81 m/s to the downward speed of a falling object.

If the object is "dropped", then it's original speed is zero.

It reaches 117.72 m/s in

(117.72 m/s) / (9.81 m/s²) = 12.00 seconds




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