Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
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Chapter 2 - One-Dimensional Kinematics - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 53: 72

Answer

$t=1.4~s$

Work Step by Step

We know that $v_f=30mi/h$ $v_f=\frac{30\times 1.609\times 10^3}{3600}m/s$ $v_f=13.4m/s$ Now $v_f=v_{\circ}+gt$ This can be rearranged as: $t=\frac{v_f-v_{\circ}}{g}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $t=\frac{13.4m/s-0m/s}{9.8m/s^2}=1.4s$
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