OK, yet another strange awakening in a room with no windows. This time you drop a ball from a height of 2.50 m and it hits the floor 0.214 s after you drop it. This time you suspect you are on a rocket that has just left the surface of the Earth, and is still not too far above the ground. What do you deduce the rocket s acceleration to be?     99.4 m/s^2     119.0 m/s^2     109.2 m/s^2     149.1 m/s^2

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  1. OK, yet another strange awakening in a room with no windows. This time you drop a ball from a height of 2.50 m and it hits the floor 0.214 s after you drop it. This time you suspect you are on a rocket that has just left the surface of the Earth, and is still not too far above the ground. What do you deduce the rocket s acceleration to be?
       
    99.4 m/s^2
       
    119.0 m/s^2
       
    109.2 m/s^2
       
    149.1 m/s^2
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