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Oct 13, 2010, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by olderexgeek View Post
Well in the vertical direction you have only air resistance and gravitational force operating on it-so 32'/sec should be drop in first second, 64 more feet in second #2 etc-as there is no given height i'ld say just use gravity to figure out to however many seconds you need to at 32'/sec/sec or 9.8m/sec/sec
Thanks for the quick reply..it was very helpful as I have not done this for 21 yrs and I'm very rusty at it now. The lack of height was really throwing me off...I will be able to help my daughter now..Thanks
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