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CP BIO A Standing Vertical Jump. Basketball player Darrell Griffith is on record as attaining a standing vertical jump of 1.2 m (4 ft). (This means that he moved upward by 1.2 m after his feet left the floor.) Griffith weighed 890 N (200 lb). (a) What was his speed as he left the floor? (b) If the time of the part of the jump before his feet left the floor was 0.300 s. what was his average acceleration (magnitude and direction) while he pushed against the floor? (c) Draw his free-body diagram. In terms of the forces on the diagram, what was the net force on him? Use Newton’s laws and the results of part (b) to calculate the average force he applied to the ground.
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