Rankers Physics
Topic: Kinematics
Subtopic: Motion Under Gravity

A body dropped from the top of a tower clears 7/16th of the total height of the tower in its last second of flight. The time taken by the body to reach the ground is :
2 s
3 s
4 s
5 s

Solution:

According to Galileo's Ratio of Odd Number distances travelled is consecution interval of 1 sec is in the ratio of 1:3:5:7 so in 4th second distance travelled is 7/16th of total journey.

so, total time = 4 sec.

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