Question

a motorcycle traveling 100m/s drives off a horizontal ramp and lands a horizontal distance of 40m away from the edge of the ramp, what is the height of the ramp?

Answer 1

We will have the following:

First, we determine the time it takes for the motorcycle to traverse the 40 m:

`40m=(100m/s)t\Rightarrow t=0.4s`

Now, we will use the time to determine the height of the ramp:

`\begin{gathered} d=(0m/s)(0.4s)+((9.8m/s^2)(0.4s)^2)/(2)\Rightarrow d=(98)/(125)m \\ \\ \Rightarrow d=0.784m \end{gathered}`

So, the ramp was located 0.784 meters in height.