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Free Fallin' (in love)

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jericho throws a baseball upward with an initial velocity of 40 m/s. How long will it take before he catches the ball back?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

8

2.

Gernan drops a tomato from the top of a building. It takes 15 seconds for the tomato to hit the ground. How high is the building?

a)

1102

b)

1202

c)

1112

d)

1122

3.

Jordzen was trapped in Fairy Tale Land. She happens upon the tower where Rapunzel is dropped. She calls for Rapunzel to drop her hair so she can climb up. If the tower is 55 m high, what would be the final velocity of the hair right before it hits the ground?

a)

31.5

b)

30.8

c)

32.8

d)

33.5

4.

Suppose you hold a book in one hand and a flat sheet of paper in another hand. You drop them both, and they fall to the ground. Explain why the falling book is a good example of free fall, but the paper is not.

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5.

The moon is a nice place to study free-fall because it has no atmosphere. If an astronaut on the moon simultaneously drops a hammer and a feather from the same height, which one hits the ground first?

a)

hammer

b)

feather

c)

they will hit at the same time

d)

they wouldn't fall

6.

As an object falls freely in a vacuum, its

a)

velocity increases.

b)

acceleration increases

c)

both A and B

d)

neither A nor B

7.

A ball is thrown upwards and caught when it comes back down. In the absence of air resistance, the speed of the ball when caught would be

a)

less than the speed it had when thrown upwards.

b)

more than the speed it had when thrown upwards.

c)

the same as the speed it had when thrown upwards.

d)

impossible to determine