Calculating the Impact: Measuring Dive Heights from the Pool

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The discussion revolves around calculating the speed of impact when diving from a height of 16 feet into a pool. The context involves concepts from physics related to free fall and motion.

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  • Exploratory, Assumption checking

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  • Participants explore the conditions of the dive, including the initial jump and subsequent fall. Questions are raised about the starting height and the nature of the dive, particularly regarding the maximum height achieved.

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The conversation is ongoing, with participants clarifying details about the dive and questioning assumptions regarding the height and velocity. There is no explicit consensus yet, but the dialogue is probing the physics involved.

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Some participants note the lack of formal physics education, which may influence their understanding of the concepts being discussed. The original poster's description of the dive raises questions about the interpretation of height and velocity.

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yo, just curious - i managed a backbuster from 16 feet yesterday in the diving pool - who wants to find out the speed at which i hit the water?
 
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You are kind of giving the game away by putting this in the homework section aren't you?

Did you not "jump" up at all? Just fall?
 
no, I am in college and taking no physics classes - i jumped from a distance of 12 feet up to a distance of 16 feet and fell the rest of the way to the water... and since the point at which i began to fall was 16 feet (my velocity at this point was 0) its the same as saying that i began to fall at 16 feet.
 
and i take back any "tone" i had in the previous post, seeing that you are a professor, not a high schooler with an attitude like i thought.
 
How do you know that you reached a max of 16ft?
 

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