00:03
All right, we're given a position function, s of t equals 16t squared, which is going to come from a much more general formula that it'll probably be working with in class.
00:13
But this 16 has to deal with gravity in feet per second squared.
00:18
We don't need to know any of that.
00:20
We just are told that this is the height.
00:22
This is the distance traveled by an object that is dropped free fall from a height of 1 ,189 feet.
00:31
So we're dropping this from 1 ,189 feet.
00:37
And then we're asked how long until it hits the ground.
00:40
So how long until it hits? well, basically what we have to do is see how long is it going to take it to drop this many feet.
00:49
So we just set s of t.
00:51
We set 16t squared equal to 1 ,189.
00:58
So that's all we're actually doing in this case.
01:01
So now that's pretty simple to solve for t.
01:03
I get t squared equals 1189 divided by 16.
01:08
And then i take the square root...