Alright in my class we are learning about free fall and crap.

I've wasted tons of time on thins one problem and it's now past midnight and I still haven't gotten it yet.

ok

Maria throws an apple vertically upward from a height of 1.3m with an initial velocity of +2.4m/s

If the apple is not caught, how long will the apple be in the air before it hits the ground?

Please show all of the steps you did because I got a completly wrong answer. The back of my book says that it's .82s

God Help...

2 answers

Also in our textbook free fall is
-9.81 m/s^2
if it is crap, and you are wasting your time, get out of the class, you have better things to do, like....

1) Go to the college bookstore, or BarnesNoble, and take a look at Schaums College Outline Series, College Physics. It will help you. And it is inexpensive.

2) the equation of motion is...

finalposition=intialposition+ vi*time + 1/2 g time^2
the final postition is zero, the initial postion is 1.3m .
g is -9.81m/s^2; vi is 2.4m/s
solve for time

0=1.3+2.4t - 4.9t^2

Use the quadratic equation.