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Suppose that a man jumps off a building $202 m$ high onto cushions having a total thickness of $2 m$ . If the cushions are crushed to a thickness of $0.5 m$ , what is the man's acceleration as he slows down?

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x

y

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$(B)$
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0.02 kg

is fired vertically upward, with a velocity

100 m s^{- 1},

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(g = 10 m s^{- 2})

Suppose that a man jumps off a building 202 m high onto cushions having a total thickness of 2 m. If the cushions are crushed to a thickness of 0.5 m, what is the man's acceleration as he slows down?

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Suppose that a man jumps off a building $202 m$ high onto cushions having a total thickness of $2 m$ . If the cushions are crushed to a thickness of $0.5 m$ , what is the man's acceleration as he slows down?