Homework Help: physics

Posted by Marco on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 2:21am.

At the local swimming hole, a favorite trick is to run horizontally off a cliff that is 7.4 m above the water. One diver runs off the edge of the cliff, tucks into a "ball," and rotates on the way down with an average angular speed of 1.6 rev/s. Ignore air resistance and determine the number of revolutions she makes while on the way down.

physics - drwls, Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 4:53am
Multiply the average angular speed, which is 1.6 rev/s rev/s, by the number of seconds that it takes to fall vertically 7.4 meters.

t = sqrt(2H/g) = 1.23 seconds

About 2 revolutions is the answer.

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