Tuesday, April 29, 2014

NTSE STUDY TIPS ON FREE FALL EQUATIONS- Part-2



Once we have mastered the art of calculating time of flight (refer to part-1), we just need two more principles to calculate total distance mentally as STEPS students do.
Principle 3: the time required to reach max height is half the time of flight.
Principle 4: The average velocity under uniform acceleration is average of initial and final velocities. Since the final velocity is zero, the average velocity is simply half of initial velocity.
Now let us calculate the maximum height of a ball projected up with a speed of 30 m/s which is just the distance travelled up by the projectile before it stops.
Time taken to reach max height =3 s
Average speed is 15 m/s
Max height = 45 m
Isn’t that COOL STUFF! We will cover the case of projectiles in 2-D in the third part.
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