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13 April, 07:30

1. A baseball player hits a baseball into the air with an initial vertical velocity of 72 feet per second from a height of 3 feet. (h = - 16t2 + 72t + s)

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  1. 13 April, 07:59
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    You actually do not ask anything here, so i will find the equation for the height and i will use it to find something useful, like the maximum height of the baseball.

    For any object in a vertical motion, the only force acting on it is the gravitational force, so the acceleration of the object will be equal to g.

    a (t) = - g

    where the minus sign is because the gravitational acceleration pulls down.

    For the velocity we can integrate over time, and get:

    v (t) = - g*t + v0

    Where v0 is the initial velocity, in this case v0 = 72 ft/s

    v (t) = - g*t + 72ft/s

    with this equation we can find the time in wich the height is maximum, we need to find the time where the velocity is 0.

    -g*t + 72 = 0

    t = 72/g

    for the height we can integrate over time again:

    h (t) = (-g/2) * t^2 + 72ft/s*t + h0

    where h0 is the initial height, in this case h0 = 3ft

    here we can also replace the value of g = 32ft/s^2

    h (t) = (-16ft/s^2) * t^2 + 72ft/s*t + 3ft

    Now we can evaluate this in the time that we previously find, t = 72/g = 72/32 = 2.25s

    h (2.25s) = - 16*2.25^2 + 72*2.25 + 3 = 85.08 feet
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