An engineering student throws a calculator straight up to a COVID-quarantined friend, who is leaning out a window 5.12 m above. The friend catches the calculator 1.43 s later and immediately sanitizes it and her hands. Taking up as the positive direction, find the calculator's velocity v just before it was caught.

An engineering student throws a calculator straight up to a COVID-quarantined friend, who is leaning out a window 5.12 m above. The friend catches the calculator 1.43 s later and immediately sanitizes it and her hands. Taking up as the positive direction, find the calculator's velocity v just before it was caught.

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

1st Edition

ISBN:9780078807213

Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter6: Motion In Two Dimensions

Section6.3: Relative Velocity

Problem 27PP

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