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    What force must a person exert to jump 75 cm high

    <i>An exceptional jumper could reach a vertical height of 0.75m. What force must a 75kg person exert to achieve this height? (assume the person crouches 0.30m to jump).</i> Okay, I know that what I'm going to have to start with: y = viy * t + 0.5 * g * t^2 to find max height at some...
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    Linear Motion (I'm sure it is easy for all you majors out there)

    Actually, it looks like what I am trying to solve is d = vi(t) + .5(a)t^2... Accleration would seem to me to be 9.8m\s... 5m = vi(t) + .5(9.8)t^2 Grr, but how to solve for t? d/t=v ?
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    Linear Motion (I'm sure it is easy for all you majors out there)

    Okay, so I was on the right-track on the second-one! : But... The first one still has me In this problem I know it takes it d = at, or 20m = 340m\s * t That would make .0588 = t, so it takes .0588 seconds for the speed to travel... 2.5s - .0588 = 2.441seconds left .. Okay, so the ball...
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    Linear Motion (I'm sure it is easy for all you majors out there)

    Linear Motion (I'm sure it is easy for all you out there) Okay, so I'm not really getting this problem: "A bowling ball traveling at constant speed hits the pins at the end of the lane, 20m away. If the bowler hears the "crack" of the ball hitting the pins 2.5 s after releasing the ball. If...
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