How to find vertical distance given speed and time?

[shlh]

A baseball is thrown horizontally off a cliff with a speed of 10 ms-1. What is the vertical distance, to the nearest tenth of a meter, that the ball has fallen after 4.7 seconds?

 

[mikeph]

The mathematics of this question are exactly the same as those of your other question, which I answered here: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=637116.

 

[shlh]

yes,but this ques are asking for VERTICAL instead of horizontal? is there any difference in calculation?

 

[mikeph]

It was vertical in the other question as well. The arrow's horizontal motion was irrelevant, all you were asked to do was find the vertical displacement during a known period of constant acceleration.

Although if it did happen to be horizontal, the same equation would still apply.