Physics

Physics

Problem

A girl drops her mobile phone from a window that is 15 m above the ground. Taking the acceleration of the Earth's gravitational field to be 10 ms−210 \text{ ms}^{-2} and ignoring any effects of air friction: a. a Sketch a velocity–time graph for the phone from when it leaves the girl's hand to when it hits the ground. b. b Calculate the time it takes for the phone to hit the ground. c. c Calculate the phone's velocity just before it hits the ground.

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