Neco 2023 Physics Question 3
Practice objective / multiple choice question 3 from the 2023 Neco Physics examination.
A student drops a steel ball from rest and records the distance fallen \(s\) (in metres) at successive times \(t\) (in seconds) as follows: \( (0.0,0.0), (0.5,1.2), (1.0,4.8), (1.5,10.8), (2.0,19.2), (2.5,30.0) \). Assuming the motion follows \(s=\frac{1}{2}gt^{2}\) at early times, use the first three data points to estimate the acceleration due to gravity \(g\). Then, using the data for \(t\ge1.5\ \text{s}\), determine the terminal velocity \(v_{t}\) of the ball by fitting a straight line to \(s\) versus \(t\). Give \(g\) in \(\text{m\,s}^{-2}\) and \(v_{t}\) in \(\text{m\,s}^{-1}\).
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This is Neco 2023 Physics Question 3. It is one of the objective questions from the 2023 Neco Physics examination.
Difficulty level: Hard .
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