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Describe how the student should measure the time taken for the toy parachute to

fall from the window

User Bosah Chude
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The time must be measured with respect to gravity. As it falls, it has free fall that is the force acting on it will be the gravity.With the distance in account, d = 1/2 gt²

t = √(2d/g)

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