Pelicans tuck their wings and free fail straight down when diving for fish. Suppose a

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Pelicans tuck their wings and free fail straight down when diving for fish. Suppose a pelican starts its dive from a height of 16.0 m and cannot change its path once committed. If it takes a fish 0.20 s to perform evasive action, at what minimum height must it spot the pelican to escape? Assume the fish is at the surface of the water.

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Problem 66GP

Pelicans tuck their wings and free fail straight down when diving for fish. Suppose a pelican starts its dive from a height of 16.0 m and cannot change its path once committed. If it takes a fish 0.20 s to perform evasive action, at what minimum height must it spot the pelican to escape? Assume the fish is at the surface of the water.

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The objective here is to find the minimum height from which a fish can spot a pelican so as to escape from being caught under the given conditions.

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