A tourist accidentally drops a camera from a 40.0 m high bridge. What is the speed of the camera as it hits the water?
Disregard air resistance.
Disregard air resistance.
1 Answer
Mar 10, 2018
Explanation:
Apply law of conservation of energy to find the velocity while hitting the water.
Total energy while in the hand of the tourist is purely potential energy i.e
And total energy while hitting the water is purely kinetic energy i.e
So,we can equate both,
so,