Solved: A flowerpot falls off a windowsill and falls past

Chapter 2, Problem 84P

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Problem 84P

A flowerpot falls off a windowsill and falls past the window below. You may ignore air resistance. It takes the pot 0.420 s to pass from the top to the bottom of this window, which is 1.90 m high. How far is the top of the window below the windowsill from which the flowerpot fell?

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QUESTION:

Problem 84P

A flowerpot falls off a windowsill and falls past the window below. You may ignore air resistance. It takes the pot 0.420 s to pass from the top to the bottom of this window, which is 1.90 m high. How far is the top of the window below the windowsill from which the flowerpot fell?

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The flowerpot is falling from the top of the window from a height “x metres”. The height of the window from its top to the bottom is 1.90 metres. Acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.8 m/s2 and it takes 0.420 s to pass the window.

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