The acceleration due to gravity on the moon is about one-sixth its value on earth. If a baseball reaches a height of 66 m when thrown upward by someone on the earth, what height would it reach when thrown in the same way on the surface of the moon?
1 Answer
Nov 21, 2016
I found:
Explanation:
We can use the relationship from kinemamatics:
with:
We have:
On Earth:
so that
On the Moon:
so that:
so considering the same values for