Dylan and Sophia are walking along a bluebird lake on a perfectly calm day. Dylan, determined to impress Sophia by his ability to skip rocks, picks up a completely horizontal velocity of 7.0 m/s from a height of 4.1 m above the water surface. How far from the edge of the water does the rock travel before it makes its first skip.

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Jadon Combs

27 February, 18:55

Dylan and Sophia are walking along a bluebird lake on a perfectly calm day. Dylan, determined to impress Sophia by his ability to skip rocks, picks up a completely horizontal velocity of 7.0 m/s from a height of 4.1 m above the water surface. How far from the edge of the water does the rock travel before it makes its first skip.

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Issac Mccarthy · Answer 1

First we need to find the time in the air

d = 1/2gt^2 + vt

Since there is no inital vertical velocity

4.1 = 1/2 (9.8) t^2

8.2/9.8 = t^2

0.8367 = t^2

t = 0.9147s

Now we multiply by speed

7m/s x 0.9147s = 6.4m