Answer to Question #135012 in Classical Mechanics for ahmad

Question

You are sitting in a plane, in straight horizontal flight at constant speed of 250 \text{m.s}^{-1}m.s 

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 , when you drop your pen from height 0.30 m above your leg. You've just shown that it hits your leg after 0.25 s.

Answer 1

$$h=0.5gt^2\\t=\sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}}=\sqrt{\frac{2(0.30)}{9.8}}=0.25\ s$$

The answer is right!