Question

You are still at Cedar Point: From the top of Power Tower (91 meters), you drop an apple. Calculate how far the apple has fallen after 2 seconds of free fall. (You will need the distance formula for free fall from the ch. 3 slide show.) Type your answer and include the units.

Answer 1

After 2 seconds, an apple in free fall from the top of a 91 meters high tower would fall 19.6 meters using the free fall distance formula d = ½ at² and the known acceleration due to gravity of 9.8 m/s².

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate how far the apple has fallen after 2 seconds of free fall from the top of Power Tower (91 meters high), we can use the formula for the distance of an object in free fall: d = ½ at², where d is the distance, a is the acceleration due to gravity (9.8 m/s²), and t is the time in seconds.

Let's plug in the values:

d = ½ * 9.8 m/s² * (2 s)²

d = ½ * 9.8 m/s² * 4 s²

d = 4.9 m/s² * 4 s²

d = 19.6 meters

After 2 seconds, the apple has fallen 19.6 meters.