Fairly Simple Problem help kinda

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Start date Oct 1, 2005

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A ball dropped from a building passes a 3-meter window in a quarter of a second. To find the height of the roof above the window, the distance to the window is set as an unknown variable h. The time taken for the ball to fall to h and to h-3 is calculated, with the difference in time equating to 1/4 second. By applying the equations of motion, the problem can be solved for h. This analysis leads to determining the height of the roof from the top of the window.

Oct 1, 2005

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Fairly Simple Problem help... kinda urgent

a ball is dropped off the roof of a building and passes a 3 meter window in a quarter of a second. How high is the roof from the top of the window?

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Oct 1, 2005

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Set the distance to the window to some unknown h and calculate the time it would take to fall to h, the time it would take to fall to h-3, and solve for h given this difference is 1/4 second.

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