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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 2 Problem 5MCQ

Question

You drop a rock off a bridge. When the rock has fallen 4m, you drop a second rock. As the two rocks continue to fall, what happens to their velocities?

(a) Both increase at the same rate.

(b) The velocity of the first rock increases faster than the velocity of the second.

(c) The velocity of the second rock increases faster than the velocity of the first.

(d) Both velocities stay constant.

Solution

Step 1 of 2

When we drop something from a height, it is influenced by the gravitational pull. Hence the objects are experiencing acceleration due to gravity.

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

You drop a rock off a bridge. When the rock has fallen 4m,

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