You are performing an experiment similar to the one shown in Figure 10. 1. The ball is dropped from a height of \(y_{i}=0.200 \mathrm{~m}\) on the pole above the cart just as the pole and cart pass your origin of coordinates. The ball lands inside the cart at the instant the cart passes the location \(x=+0.0600 \mathrm{~m}\). The lab exercise includes, among other things, that you determine the distance traveled by the ball from when it is released until it lands in the cart. Your lab partner immediately says " \(0.200 \mathrm{~m}\)," but the girl at the next table says " \(0.0600 \mathrm{~m}\)." The lab partners just behind you are arguing about whether it is \(0.209 \mathrm{~m}\) or \(0.214 \mathrm{~m}\). You have not done the calculation, but of these four numbers, which could be correct?

Data from Figure 10. 1

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Earth reference frame frame 2 3 Reference frame of cart