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Step 7: Establish the Heights from which to Drop the Soda Bottle
You will drop the bottle/water mass so that it hits the To achieve a speed of 2 m/s, the bottle must be
lever at different speeds. Since an object in free fall is dropped at 0.20 m.
accelerated by gravity, you need to determine the heights To achieve a speed of 3 m/s, the bottle must be
necessary to drop the bottle to achieve the speeds of 2
m/s, 3 m/s, 4 m/s, 5 m/s, and 6 m/s. Use the
dropped at 9.02 m.
equation Ht=
2
to calculate the height, where Ht is the To achieve a speed of 4 m/s, the bottle must be
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dropped at 0.80 m.
height, v is the speed (velocity), and g is the gravitational To achieve a speed of 5 m/s, the bottle must be
acceleration of 9.8 m/s2
dropped at
Record these heights in Table B.
To achieve of 6 m/s, the bottle must be
m.
dropped at 1.28
m.
1.56
1.84
2.56
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