Duffer McGee stood on a hill and used a nine iron to hit a golf ball that reached a maximum height of 149 feet and stayed in the air for 5.8 seconds before it touched the ground.
Mercury has a gravity of approximately 12 feet per second squared compared to Earth's 32 feet per second squared. NASA did a simulation to try to determine how high the golf ball would fly and how long it would stay in the air on Mercury if it was hit at the same height, angle and velocity as Duffer's. The data below represent the results of that simulation:
t |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
H(t) |
112 |
181 |
238 |
283 |
316 |
Use your model to estimate how long the golf ball will take to reach its maximum height and what its maximum height will be. Round your answers to two decimal places.
The golf ball will reach a maximum height of _____ feet after ____ seconds