Motion Under Gravity
From the top of a tower, a ball is thrown vertically upward which reaches the ground in 6 s. A second ball thrown vertically downward from the same position with the same speed reaches the ground in 1.5 s. A third ball released, from the rest from the same location, will reach the ground in ____________ s.
Numerical answer type. Work it out, then open the answer.
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Answer: 3
- For a tower, time to fall from rest , where are the up-throw and down-throw times with the same speed.
- s
- So the answer is 3 s.