A falling model Suppose you drop a ball from the top of a building that is 100 feet tall.
a. Construct a mathematical model to estimate how long it takes the ball to reach the ground. Hint an object falling near the surface of the earth in the absence of air friction accelerates downward at the rate of g= 32.2 ft/sec^2
b. use calculus to solve the model and answer the question.
c. After solving the model for your estimate suppose you accually drop the ball and discover it takes 2.6 seconds to reach the ground. What do you conclude from the result.
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a. Construct a mathematical model to estimate how long it takes the ball to reach the ground. Hint an object falling near the surface of the earth in the absence of air friction accelerates downward at the rate of g= 32.2 ft/sec^2
b. use calculus to solve the model and answer the question.
c. After solving the model for your estimate suppose you accually drop the ball and discover it takes 2.6 seconds to reach the ground. What do you conclude from the result.
I am not sure what to do with this problem. I have more like this so if I see one example I can do the rest.
Thanks dawn