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Free Fall Practice Sheet

Part 1: Free Fall Concepts


1. What is free fall?

a) What does g stand for?

b) What is the magnitude of g? Direction?

2. If there is no air resistance, what remains constant as an object falls?

3. A bowling ball and a penny are dropped from the atrium. If there is no air resistance, which will hit the
ground first?

4. If a freely falling object were equipped with a speedometer, how would the readings change every
second?

5. If a freely falling object were equipped with an odometer, how would the readings change every
second?

6. An object is dropped from a tall cliff and undergoes freefall, what happens to:
a) the speed of the object each second? SELECT
b) the distance traveled? SELECT
c) the acceleration? SELECT

7. An object is thrown straight up and reaches the top of its path. What is the acceleration at the top, just
before it starts to fall back to the ground?

8. An object is thrown straight up and reaches the top of its path. What is the instantaneous velocity at
the top of its path?

9. The diagram shows a ball that is thrown straight up, reaches the top of its path, and falls back down.
a) The ball leaves the boy’s hand at 40 m/s. What is the speed at the top of the path? Why?

b) What is the magnitude and direction of the acceleration of the ball as it travels up? Why?

c) What is the magnitude and direction of the acceleration of the ball at the top? Why?

d) What is the magnitude and direction of the acceleration of the ball as it is starting to fall back down? Why?

10. What is a “Perfect Physics World”?

Part 2: Free Fall Calculations


Example 1: Rex Things dropped his mother’s vase out the window of his fourth story apartment, 18.2m above
the ground. Determine the time it took for it to reach the ground.
Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

Example 2: Rex Things dropped his mother’s vase out the window of his fourth story apartment, 18.2m above
the ground. Determine its landing speed.
Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

Example 3: Eva Baul throws a ball upwards at 23.4m/s. Determine the time it takes for the ball to reach its
highest point (ie the peak).
Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

Independent Practice:
1. Four seconds after starting from rest, what will be the velocity of a freely falling object?
Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

2. An object falls freely for 12 seconds.


a) Calculate the velocity after 12 seconds.
Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

b) Calculate the distance fallen after 12 seconds.


Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

3. A model rocket is launched upwards at 45m/s. How high does it go?


Givens Unknown Equation Substitute Solve

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