2. If I drop a watermelon from the top of one of the tower dorms at CSU, and it takes 3.34 seconds to hit the ground, calculate how tall the building is in meters

The building is 54.66 m tall

Explanation:

Free Fall

It occurs when an object falls under the sole influence of gravity and do not encounter air resistance.

If an object is dropped from rest in a free-falling motion, it falls with a constant acceleration called the acceleration of gravity, which value is .

The distance traveled by a dropped object at time t is:

The watermelon is dropped from a tower dorm and takes t=3.34 seconds to hit the ground.

The distance traveled in that time is the height of the building:

h = 54.66 m

The building is 54.66 m tall