Homework Help: calculus 2

Posted by Nycw on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 10:47pm.

Megan bailed out of her plane at an altitude of 8000 feet, fell freely for 15 seconds, and then opened her parachute. Assume that the drag coefficients are a=0.1 for a free fall and a=1.6 with a parachute. When did she land(in seconds)?

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