UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION

On a lazy summer day you decide to climb a tree. Climbing to the highest limb that will still support your weight, you drop a water balloon in such a manner that it misses all branches on the way down and strikes the ground with a very satisfying "splat" as the balloon ruptures upon impact. You just happen to notice that the balloon takes 1.83 seconds to fall to the ground. How high above the ground are you?

a) define your coordinate systems,

b) show your starting equations,

c) show your working equations,

d) show all substitutions with units,

e) circle your answers.