^Ahh, I was misunerstanding the problem. I thought it was saying 1.3 sec was the time to fall from the top of the cliff to the top of the bottom third of the cliff (hence going 2/3 of the way down).
Thanks
"You're not thinking about this quite right. Setting it up as you've shown, you've assumed that the time it takes for the boulder to fall 2h/3 is the same as the time it takes to fall h/3."
Why have I assumed that? "(1/2)(g)(t)^2" is a unit of distance. Didn't I just find the distance to 2/3...
This isn't really homework, but I'll be taking intro Physics in fall and am trying to get a grasp on the material ahead of time so I can do well.
Homework Statement
An alert hiker sees a boulder fall from the top of a distant cliff and notes that it takes 1.3s for the boulder to fall to...