Death by Turkey
Poor Grandmother! Turkeys can't fly, especially when they're dead. Of course, the sight of the bird sitting helpless in the refrigerator evoked such pity in Grandmother that she felt compelled to take it in her arms and bring it to the roof of our 250 meter high building. She then proceeded to throw it horizontally to its freedom at 3 meters per second. Meanwhile, at street level, Nietzsche (15.2 meters from the building); Heidegger (21.2 meters from the building), and Sartre (29.1 meters from the building) were having a knock down drag out tiff about existentialism, of course. Which one of these existentialist philosophers was struck and killed by the plummeting turkey? (Use 10 meters per square second as "g.")
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1 solution
There are many ways to do this.
Heidegger was wrong, so it hit him.
The guy in the middle always gets it.
Heidegger has "Hei" before it, as in "hit with hei(high) turkey
ACTUAL SOLUTION
The formula for a thing falling is about d = t 2 ∗ g / 2 Plugging in 250 for d, and 9.8 for g (g is the acceleration, d is the distance), you get ~7.14 seconds. The turkey was moving at 3 m/s for 7.14 seconds, so you get 21.2 meters traveled, so Heidegger was hit.