Edexcel M1 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleM1 (Mechanics 1)
TopicSUVAT in 2D & Gravity

4. Andrew hits a tennis ball vertically upwards towards his sister Barbara who is leaning out of a window 7.5 m above the ground to try to catch it. When the ball leaves Andrew's racket, it is 1.9 m above the ground and travelling at \(21 \mathrm {~m} \mathrm {~s} ^ { - 1 }\). Barbara fails to catch the ball on its way up but succeeds as the ball comes back down. Modelling the ball as a particle and assuming that air resistance can be neglected,
  1. find the maximum height above the ground which the ball reaches.
  2. find how long Barbara has to wait from the moment that the ball first passes her until she catches it.