A 65-kg swimmer jumps off a 10.0-m tower. What is the swimmer's velocity on hitting the water?
The swimmer comes to a stop 2.0 m below the surface. What is the net force exerted by the water?
The swimmer comes to a stop 2.0 m below the surface. What is the net force exerted by the water?
1 Answer
Explanation:
First, remember the equation
We want to find
So our equation would be
So
Now that we know the velocity, we can find the answer to the second part.
We can still use the same equation again, except that our
Isolating
Then finding
So the net force pushing the swimmer up will be