Askydiver jumps out of a hovering helicopter, so there is no forward velocity.

just as the skydiver steps out of the helicopter, someone who’s watching starts a stopwatch. so the time is zero as the skydiver steps out of the plane. what is the skydiver’s downward velocity at that instant, just before starting to fall?

How does an observation about an object differ from an inference about that object

How does a circuit breaker protect a refrigerator? a. when the current is too high, a metal strip in the fuse melts and opens the circuit. b. when the resistance is too high , a re-settable which opens a circuit c. when the current is too high , a re-settable switch opens the circuit d. when the resistance is too high a metal strip in the fuse melts and opens the circuit

One hazard of space travel is debris left by previous missions. there are several thousand masses large enough to detect by radar orbiting the earth, but there are far greater numbers of very small masses such as flakes of paint. calculate the force exerted by a 0.110 mg chip of paint that strikes a space shuttle window at a relative speed of 5.00 ✕ 103 m/s and sticks, given the collision lasts 6.00 ✕ 10-8 s. such a collision chipped the window of the ill-fated challenger in june 1983, causing $50,000 of damage.