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Homework Statement
A basketball player achieves a hang time of 0.843 s in dunking the ball. What vertical height will he attain? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2. Answer in units of m.Homework Equations
I'm not sure what to use, but I think [itex]\Delta[/itex]x = vit + 1/2 at2 could work.
The Attempt at a Solution
I divided the hang time (0.843s) by two before plugging it in because I just wanted to find the vertical height, but I'm not sure if that's what I should do. I guess initial velocity would be 0?
I arrived at -2.1m. The absolute value of this is incorrect as well.
Solving this way using the given time (not halved) does not yield the correct answer either. I think the problem is initial velocity. What should it be?
I'm really not sure how to do this one. The wording is vague and I feel like there's not enough information. Any help would be really appreciated, thank you guys.
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