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Course: Mechanics (Essentials) - Class 11th?>?Unit 4
Lesson 11: Why does a feather and a steel ball fall at the same time in freefall!- Sign of gravity in free fall
- Free fall 1 body - solved example
- Free fall - 2 body solved numerical
- Freefall: graphs and conceptual questions
- Free fall - total time up & down solved example
- Solving freefall problems using kinematic formulas
- Worked example: Free fall, object thrown up from a building
- Advanced: Freefall problems
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Freefall: graphs and conceptual questions
Problem
A quarter is tossed up from the roof of a skyscraper and hits the sidewalk below.
Which of the following graphs best shows the velocity of the quarter from when it is tossed up until it reaches the ground?
Assume upward is the positive direction.