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Question 1
a) A girl throws a stone vertically upwards with an initial speed of 5 m/s. How much later must she drop another stone from the same point 1.2 m above the ground so that the two stones reach the ground simultaneously?
Given, for the first stone,
the initial velocity is
its initial kinetic energy gets converted to potential energy at the highest point it reaches,
that is
At this maximum height its velocity is zero
time taken by the first stone to reach this height is
therefore,
from this quadratic equation, we get
Now, this stone starts to fall, with 0 initial velocity, then the time taken to fall to ground is
therefore,
therefore total time for the first stone to reach the ground is
for the second stone,
initial height is
initial velocity is
let time taken to reach the ground be , therefore
therefore, required answer is time after which she should drop the second stone