A man stands on a ledge and throws a ball into the air so that, at the instant when the ball leaves his hand, the ball is 4 m above the ground and is moving vertically upwards with speed 8 ms-1. The motion of the ball is modelled as that of a particle moving freely under gravity and the acceleration due to gravity is modelled as being of constant magnitude 10 ms-2. The ball hits the ground T T\,T seconds after leaving the man's hand.
Using the model, find the value of TTT.
260 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Maths 3.2 Kinematics, covering 3.2.1 Language of kinematics, 3.2.2 Graphs in kinematics, 3.2.3 Displacement-time and velocity-time graphs, 3.2.4 Constant acceleration formulae, 3.2.5 Constant acceleration in two dimensions (A-level only), 3.2.6 Non-uniform acceleration in one dimension (A-level only), 3.2.7 Non-uniform acceleration in two dimensions (A-level only), 3.2.8 Motion under gravity using vectors (A-level only), and 3.2.9 Projectiles (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.