SUVAT equations question 13

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 8 years, 8 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect commented 8 years, 8 months ago

Part a asked for the height above ground, but didn't add in the height of the rooftop.

I've set up a variable max_height which adds in the height of the rooftop, and modified the advice.

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Amy Chadwick 8 years, 9 months ago

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Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
SUVAT equations question 13	Ready to use	Amy Chadwick	03/08/2016 18:05
Q3 Constant Acceleration	draft	Stephen Bowlzer	10/08/2016 11:11
Q4 Constant Acceleration	draft	Stephen Bowlzer	10/08/2016 12:37
John's copy of SUVAT equations question 13	draft	John Bridges	12/11/2018 13:40
Simon's copy of SUVAT equations question 13	draft	Simon Thomas	04/04/2019 14:17

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A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a speed $\var{u} \mathrm{ms^{-1}}$ from a rooftop which is $\var{s} \mathrm{m}$ above ground. The acceleration due to gravity is $g = 9.8 \mathrm{ms^{-2}}$ .

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

a	number	-9.8
s	integer	7
u	number	26.5
t	number	5.6605370956
t2	number	5.661
max_height	number	42.8290816327

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Acceleration due to gravity with upwards as positive direction

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You can model the ball as a particle moving in a straight line with constant acceleration of magnitude $9.8 \mathrm{ms}^{-2}$ due to gravity. As the ball is thrown upwards, we take the positive direction as pointing upwards.

We are told $u=\var{u}$ and $a=\var{a}$ and we are asked to find the greatest height, $s$ , reached by the ball. At its greatest height, the ball will for an instant have a velocity of $v=0$ before it starts to fall back down.

Therefore we can use the equation $v^2=u^2+2as$ , rearranged for $s$ .

Note that the rooftop is $\var{s} \mathrm{m}$ above ground level, so the distance travelled by the ball to its greatest height is $(\simplify{s-{s}}) \mathrm{m}$ .

$\begin{align} v^2 & =u^2+2a(s-\var{s}), \\ 2a(s-\var{s}) & = v^2-u^2, \\ s-\var{s} & = \frac{v^2-u^2}{2a}, \\ & = \frac{0 - \var{u}^2}{2 \times \var{a}}, \\ & = \var{precround(-u^2/(2*a),3)}, \\ s &= \simplify[]{{s}+{precround(-u^2/(2*a),3)}}, \\ &= \var{precround(max_height,3)} \mathrm{m}. \end{align}$

The greatest height reached by the ball is $\var{precround(max_height,3)} \mathrm{m}$ .

b)

The flight time of the ball is the length of time between it being thrown from the rooftop and when it hits the ground below.

Here, the rooftop is $\var{s}\mathrm{m}$ above the ground, therefore the ball will stop moving when it hits the ground at a height $\var{-s} \mathrm{m}$ from its original position.

Therefore we can use the equation $s=ut+\frac{1}{2}at^2$ rearranged for $t$ .

$\begin{align} s & = ut + \frac{1}{2}at^2, \\ -\var{s} & = \var{u}t - \frac{49}{10}t^2, \\ \frac{49}{10}t^2 - \var{u}t - \var{s} &= 0. \end{align}$

Using the quadratic formula, taking only the positive term as we are modelling time, this gives

$\begin{align} t & = \frac{u + \sqrt{u^2 +19.6s)}}{9.8}, \\ & = \frac{\var{u} + \sqrt{\var{u^2} + \left(19.6 \times \var{s}\right)}}{9.8}, \\ & = \var{precround((u+ (u^2 + 19.6*s)^(1/2))/9.8,3)} \mathrm{s}. \end{align}$

The flight time of the ball is $\var{precround((u+ (u^2 + 19.6*s)^(1/2))/9.8,3)}$ seconds.

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