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DATA In a physics lab experiment, you release a small steel ball at various heights above the ground and measure the ball’s speed just before it strikes the ground. You plot your data on a graph that has the release height (in meters) on the vertical axis and the square of the final speed (in m2/s2) on the horizontal axis. In this graph your data points lie close to a straight line, (a) Using g = 9.80 m/s2 and ignoring the effect of air resistance, what is the numerical value of the slope of this straight line? (Include the correct units.) The presence of air resistance reduces the magnitude of the downward acceleration, and the effect of air resistance increases as the speed of the object increases. You repeat the experiment, but this time with a tennis ball as the object being dropped. Air resistance now has a noticeable effect on the data, (b) Is the final speed for a given release height higher than, lower than, or the same as when you ignored air resistance? (c) Is the graph of the release height versus the square of the final speed still a straight line? Sketch the qualitative shape of the graph when air resistance is present.
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