A skydiver jumps out of a plane with an initial velocity of 0 m/s. Ignoring the effect of air resistance, how far below where he jumped out will he be after 2.5 seconds? And what will be his vertical velocity after 2.5 seconds?
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8 m/s^2. This means that the sky diver's velocity will increase by 9.8 m/s every second. Show more…
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