During a summer vacation, a group of professional football players were having a contest to see who could jump the farthest off a dock into the lake. One player’s horizontal distance at splashdown was 3.65 m from the edge of the dock. If the surface of the dock sits 1.20 m above the water surface and the player left the dock with a 0.0o launch angle, what was the player’s speed when he left the dock?
Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration
In classical mechanics, kinematics deals with the motion of a particle. It deals only with the position, velocity, acceleration, and displacement of a particle. It has no concern about the source of motion.
Linear Displacement
The term "displacement" refers to when something shifts away from its original "location," and "linear" refers to a straight line. As a result, “Linear Displacement” can be described as the movement of an object in a straight line along a single axis, for example, from side to side or up and down. Non-contact sensors such as LVDTs and other linear location sensors can calculate linear displacement. Non-contact sensors such as LVDTs and other linear location sensors can calculate linear displacement. Linear displacement is usually measured in millimeters or inches and may be positive or negative.
During a summer vacation, a group of professional football players were having a contest to see who could jump the farthest off a dock into the lake. One player’s horizontal distance at splashdown was 3.65 m from the edge of the dock. If the surface of the dock sits 1.20 m above the water surface and the player left the dock with a 0.0o launch angle, what was the player’s speed when he left the dock?
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