Thursday, October 27, 2011

Kinematics Problem Solver - Example 4

Question: A boy dropped a ball from a cliff. Find the ratio of distance fallen in the first 4 seconds to the distance fallen in the first 2 seconds by the ball.

Answer:
From the question, we know that

  • Initial velocity = 0 ms^-1.
  • Time taken = 2 s and 4 s.
  • Acceleration = 10 ms^-2.
  • Displacement = ?

Neatly done.
Now, to find the ratio of the time taken of two different falls, we will have to run the program twice as such.



Distance fallen in the first 2 seconds of the ball is 20 m.



Distance fallen in the first 4 seconds of the ball is 80 m.

Let's put them in the ratio as the question wants us to do it.

distance fallen in the first 4 seconds : distance fallen in the first 2 seconds = 80:20 = 4:1.

The answer is 4:1.

Easy to use, isn't it?

Continue to example 5 for more! (coming soon)

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