You are at the mall on the top step of a down escalator when you lean over

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You are at the mall on the top step of a down escalator when you lean over laterally to see your 1.80-m-tall physics professor on the bottom step of the adjacent up escalator. Unfortunately, the ice cream you hold in your hand falls out of its cone as you lean. The two escalators have identical angles of 40.0° with the horizontal, a vertical height of 10.0 m, and move at the same speed of 0.400 m/s. Will the ice cream land on your professors head? Explain. If it does land on his head, at what time and at what vertical height does that happen? What is the relative speed of the ice cream with respect to the head at the time of impact?
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University Physics With Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0073513881

2nd edition

Authors: Wolfgang Bauer, Gary Westfall

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