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A 60 kg high jumper lands on a foam pit and comes to rest. If the pit is able to exert an average force of 600 N on the high jumper in breaking the fall, what is the jumper’s acceleration?

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Do you remember the formula F = ma? I hope so.

a = F/m = 10 m/s^2

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