In a bizarre but harmless accident, a watermelon fell from the top of the Eiffel Tower. How fast was the watermelon traveling when it hit the ground 7.80 seconds after falling?

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Reagan Sexton

9 January, 12:57

In a bizarre but harmless accident, a watermelon fell from the top of the Eiffel Tower. How fast was the watermelon traveling when it hit the ground 7.80 seconds after falling?

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Nathanial Shah · Answer 1

Gravity increases the speed of a falling object by 9.8 m/s for

every second that it falls. If the object fell from rest (zero m/s),

then after 7.8 seconds, its speed was

(7.8 sec) x (9.8 m/s²) = 76.44 m/s.