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Ch 02: Motion Along a Straight Line

Chapter 2, Problem 2

An egg is thrown nearly vertically upward from a point near the cornice of a tall building. The egg just misses the cornice on the way down and passes a point 30.0 m below its starting point 5.00 s after it leaves the thrower's hand. Ignore air resistance. (c) What is the magnitude of its velocity at the highest point?

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Welcome back everybody. We have a man on top of a building and he is throwing a stone upwards and then it will fall back downwards off the edge of the building. And we are asked to find what the velocity at the maximum height is. So at this point which I've denoted H, we need to find that velocity. Let's think about it This way. When the ball is traveling upward, the velocity is positive, and when it's traveling downward velocity is negative. So at some point you need to cross from positive numbers to negative numbers. And if you think about throwing a ball up at this height, the ball's going to pause momentarily. So when this cause happens at its maximum height, it's not moving for a split second, which means that its philosophy at its maximum height 0m/s. Or spotting to answer choice. C. Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope this video helped. We will see you all in the next one.
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