Gotta love physics

Here is one of my physics homework problems I have to do:

An unusual variant of basketball is played on the planet Zarth. During the game, a player flies above the basket and drops the ball in from a height of 14.3 m.

If the ball takes 4.7 s to fall into the basket, what is the acceleration due to gravity, g, on the planet Zarth?

😆 gotta love my physics teacher 🙄

so what's the answer 🥷

is this a trick question?

Originally posted by AOR
so what's the answer 🥷

Physics sucks ass. 🥷

I really don't know Physics wasn't my strong point.

My Physics diploma exam is tomorrow. 😛

Originally posted by DarkC
My Physics diploma exam is tomorrow. 😛

that answer does not compute borg

Originally posted by Röland
Physics sucks ass. 🥷

I really don't know Physics wasn't my strong point.

srug better than chemistry

I've seen stranger. I had one physics teacher that themed an entire test around LotR.

The problem is unslovable (b/c I'm not going to go find my kinematics stuff right now)

I would have failed ✅

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I've seen stranger. I had one physics teacher that themed an entire test around LotR.

The problem is unslovable (b/c I'm not going to go find my kinematics stuff right now)

Oh no, it's solveable. We turn it in to this website that tells us whether the answer is correct or not. So that means there is an answer...

Originally posted by BlackSunshine
I would have failed ✅

mhm yes you would have

it should be initial velocity- final velocity/ time or somehting, i forget my pohysics equations

Vf2 = ViT + at^2

You made my brain hurt cry

i'm pretty good at math.. but i can't help you there srug

Originally posted by Mr. Bacon
it should be initial velocity- final velocity/ time or somehting, i forget my pohysics equations

is the final velocity squared hmm

I couldn't answer it, with my knowledge I'd need another information, the Potential Energy for example. Or the mass.

So which one?

Gaaah, it's now been...4 years since I've had physics. Damn.

I don't remember but it's easy to figure out. Gravity is meters per second squared, remember.

My physics teacher used to write his students into the test. It was great. There was a question on one of the tests about how I had thrown my book off a bridge, and given the velocity and height of the bridge off the water, we had to figure out how far away it would land.

I loved my physics class 😂

Originally posted by Bardock42
I couldn't answer it, with my knowledge I'd need another information, the Potential Energy for example. Or the mass.

It's all the information I'm given. shrug

Though Mr. Bacon is right. I couldn't calculate final nor initial velocity though.

Originally posted by Lana
Gaaah, it's now been...4 years since I've had physics. Damn.

I don't remember but it's easy to figure out. Gravity is meters per second squared, remember.

My physics teacher used to write his students into the test. It was great. There was a question on one of the tests about how I had thrown my book off a bridge, and given the velocity and height of the bridge off the water, we had to figure out how far away it would land.

I loved my physics class 😂

doh gah!!! m/s/s I always forget to put that...

although I'll still need the answer...