Thank you so much for your patience and detailed explanation. I was doing some mass and trying to figure out some distance between the lift and the bolt... Thinking that, even with the bolt starting with a initial velocity = 0 (the wall of shaft).. I was imagining that at some point, more...
yeap... I see it now... =/ I'm struggling with the second part... I was able to solve the first part:
I made a draw to understand the "dynamics" of the environment and computed the Xf for the elevator and bolt:
Xfb = Xib + Vit + 1/2 at^2
= 0 - 8t + 9.8/2 t^2
Xfb = 4.9t^2 -8t
Xfe = 5 -...
Hello Wrangler_77, did you solve the second question?
Now assume that the bolt falls from the *wall* of the elevator shaft, and then falls freely without air resistance.
How many seconds after the fall will the bolt pass the bottom of the elevator?