Question

You are driving off of a horizontal cliff, again!!! The cliff is measured to be 35.56 m above a rocky ravine floor, but you land 10.36 m away from the sheer cliff face.

How fast were you going when you drove off of the cliff?
Time to free-fall 35.56m
= sqrt(2*S/g)
= sqrt(2*35.56/9.81)
= 2.6925 s

Horizontal velocity does not change during free fall, so
v= Dist/time
= 10.36 m/2.6925s
= 3.81 m/s

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