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A careless mountain climber drops her water bottle off a cliff. It is pulled

toward the ground beneath at a rate of due to gravity for 3
seconds. At what velocity does it hit the ground?

User Rawling
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Answer:

final speed of the bottle after t = 3 s is 29.43 m/s

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that the motion of the water bottle is free fall

As we know that the initial speed of the bottle is zero

so we have


v_f = v_i + at

now we know that


v_i = 0


a = 9.81 m/s^2

t = 3 s

now we have


v_f = 0 + (9.81)(3)


v_f = 29.43 m/s

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