An elevator starts from rest and moves upward, accelerating at a rate of 4 ft/s2 until it

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An elevator starts from rest and moves upward, accelerating at a rate of 4 ft/s2 until it reaches a speed of 24 ft/s, which it then maintains. Two seconds after the elevator begins to move, a man standing 40 ft above the initial position of the top of the elevator throws a ball upward with an initial velocity of 64 ft/s. Determine when the ball will hit theelevator.image

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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