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Thank you very much! With your help and little more researching and thinking, I've solved my problem! :smile:

This is my second question here in several months; I sincerely appreciate the people here and their generosity to help others! Any help is greatly appreciated! We've been given a question and the answer; it's our duty to determine how to solve this problem and get to the given answer. Q...

Ok, thanks; I thought it meant that, but I wasn't sure. Perhaps he might actually be looking for that, but I can't be sure; I won't get an answer before Monday, so, in the mean time, if anything else pops in your mind (or anyone's mind), please let me know. Thank you very much!

Ok, I believe that I understand your reasoning. According to what he told me, I didn't even need to consider the mass when calculating the answer. Nonetheless, he did mention that the 5 m/s^2 and the 9.8 m/s^2 were important. He also mentioned the fact that I had to use them in accordance...

I came up with the same reasoning as you did. I gave a little more information at the same time as you posted (see above your post), so perhaps that little bit might be of some help. Thanks!

Ok, so if I correctly understand, you attributed the mass as being 1, or you simply neglected it. I also came up with 14m/s for the velocity, and then used that to prove that 9.8 m/s^2 was indeed the regular acceleration. It's odd that the answer you get to is double his given answer...

Hey, While searching for a solution to a particular problem, I stumbled upon this forum; any help would be greatly appreciated. We're currently working on energy and power, and in spite of my past success with such problems, I couldn't solve this one: A volleyball is dropped from a...