What Is the Maximum Height Reached by a Falling Brick?

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Start date Sep 3, 2012

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Sep 3, 2012

iMAGICIALoTV

A load of bricks is being lifted by a crane at a velocity of 5 m/s when one brick falls off 6m above the ground. What is the greatest height the brick reaches above the ground?

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Since it fell of 6 meters above the ground, the greatest height it reached was 6 meters.

But I'm not sure. Am I missing something?

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Sep 3, 2012

voko

What velocity did the brick have just before it separated?

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