A building inspector standing on the top floor of a building wishes to determine the depth of the elevator shaft. They drop a rock from rest and hear it hit bottom after 2.56 as. (a) How far (in m) is it from where they drop the rock to the bottom of the shaft

Answer:

d = 29.89 m

Explanation:

To solve this, we need to separate this problem in two parts.

One part would be the the time taken by the rock to actually hit the bottom, and the other part would be the time taken by the sound to reach the inspector.

Joining these two times we have:

t = t₁ + t₂    (1)

This time is 2.56 s.

Now, as we are asked to determine the distance from the top floor to the bottom, and we have two times taken in different ways, one by sound and the other the actual, we can say the same thing on distance, we need a distance relationed to the time taken by rock to hit the bottom, and the other distance relationet to the time taken by sound to reach the inspector.

Doing this we have that the distance traveled by the rock is:

y₁ = gt²/2

y₁ = 9.8t²/2 = 4.9t₁²    (2)

Now, the distance traveled by sound would be:

y₂ = v * t₂ = 336t₂   (3)

Remember that the speed of the sound is 336 m/s

From this last expression (3), we can actually write t₂ in function of t₁, using (1):

2.56 = t₁ + t₂

t₂ = 2.56 - t₁    (4)

Replacing (4) in (3):

y₂ = 336(2.56 - t₁)    (5)

Now that we have y₁ and y₂, we can equal (2) and (5), both expressions to get the value of t₁, and then, calculate the distance:

4.9t₁² = 336(2.56 - t₁)

4.9t₁² = 860.16 - 336t₁

4.9t₁² + 336t₁ - 860.16 = 0

Using the quadractic formula, we can calculate t₁:

t₁ = -336 ±√(336)² + 4*4.9*860.16 / (2*4.9)

t₁ = -336 ±√129,7555.136 / 9.8

t₁ = -336 ± 360.21 / 9.8     Using only the positive value we have:

t₁ = 2.47 s

This means that the rock hits the bottom in 2.47 s, and the remaining 0.09 s belongs to the time taken by sound. (2.47 + 0.09 = 2.56 s)

With this, we can calculate the distance of the rock using expression (2):

y₁ = 4.9 * (2.47)²

Hope this helps

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